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• Cover
• Half title
• Title page
• Imprints page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Plates
• Figures
• Maps and genealogies
• Tables
• Prefatory note
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• What are emotions?
• Emotional communities
• Why this book?
• 1 Ancient theories
• Cicero’s somber, “Stoic” emotions
• Cicero’s sorrows
• Cicero’s loves
• Augustine’s willful emotions
• 2 Attachment and detachment
• Family feeling in Austrasia
• Waiting for heaven in Neustria
• Late seventh-century factions and their discontents
• Emotions of demons and their creatures
• The emotions of godly inspiration
• The moral ambiguity of emotions
• 3 Alcuin’s therapy
• Pre-Alcuinian schemes of virtues and vices
• The text’s influence and sources
• An emotional text?
• Constructing a list of emotions
• Expanding the list
• Implications
• 4 Love and treachery
• Aelred and Rievaulx
• Love and the affectus
• Charity in action
• The joys and pains of friendship
• Emotions of power
• At the court of Toulouse
• The context: the count and his court
• The troubadours in the counts’ entourage
• Emotion words
• “Official” feelings: the emotions of the charters
• The disappointments of love
• 5 Thomas’ passions
• The passions of the soul
• The sequence of the passions
• Beyond eleven passions
• Love
• The morality of the passions
• 6 Theatricality and sobriety
• “Troubled, sad, and upset at heart”: the Burgundian chroniclers
• The sorrow and the pity
• Finding it “full merry to be reproved”: Margery Kempe
• “Neither too heavy nor too merry”: The Pastons
• 7 Gerson’s music
• Practical lists and a theory
• The song of the heart
• 8 Despair and happiness
• The “great divide”? From medieval to early modern
• Political and religious reforms
• The melancholic turn
• Feeling despair, seeking comfort: the believers in a gathered church
• Privileging justice and happiness
• Curiosity and delight
• 9 Hobbes’ motions
• Passionate controversies
• Passions as motions
• Consistencies and divergences
• Old and new
• Emotional communities
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• Index