The Freie Universität Berlin and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800) presents:

EMOTIONS: MOVEMENT, CULTURAL CONTACT AND EXCHANGE, 1100-1800

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

MONIQUE SCHEER (University of Tübingen) ‘Fetishizing Emotions’ June 30th, 2016, 12:50-2:20 pm at the Seminaris Campus Hotel Berlin, Takustraße 39

LYNDAL ROPER (University of Oxford) ‘Luther and Emotions in the Reformation’ July 1st, 2016, 11–12:30 pm at the Seminaris Campus Hotel Berlin, Takustraße 39

LAURA M. STEVENS (University of Tulsa) ‘Fostering and Theft: The Hunger for Children’ July 2nd, 2016, 11–12:30 pm at Holzlaube FU Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23-25

DATE: 30 June to 2 July 2016 This conference will draw on a broad range of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary expertise in addressing the history of TIME: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm emotions in relation to cross-cultural movement, exchange, VENUE: Freie Universität Berlin: contact and changing connections in the later medieval and 30 June - 1 July, Seminaris early modern periods. It brings together two major areas in CampusHotel contemporary Humanities: the study of how emotions were 2 July, Holzlaube. understood, expressed and performed in pre-modern contexts, both by individuals and within larger groups and communities; ENQUIRIES: and the study of pre-modern cultural movements, contacts, [email protected]. exchanges and understandings, within Europe and between

Image: East Indian Market Stall, attributed to non-Europeans and Europeans. Albert Eckhout, 1640 - 1666. © Rijksmuseum.

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DAY 1: THURSDAY, 30 JUNE 2016 AT THE SEMINARIS CAMPUSHOTEL BERLIN, TAKUSTRASSE 39, 14195 BERLIN 11:00 am Registration 12:00–12:50 pm Welcome ANDREW LYNCH and DANIELA HACKE Introduction CLAUDIA JARZEBOWSKI 12:50 – 2:20 pm KEYNOTE LECTURE: MONIQUE SCHEER (University of Tübingen) ‘Fetishizing Emotions’ 2:20 – 2:45 pm Afternoon Tea 2:45 – 4:15 pm Parallel Sessions 1 (A-C) 1A ‘ENCOUNTERING THE OTHER IN 1B ‘EMOTIONAL RESONANCES AND 1C ‘ENCOUNTERS IN THE NORTHERN EUROPE: HOSTILITY, RESPONSES: BLACKNESS, THE AFFECTIVE SPACE: EXCHANGE PITY, FEAR AND SURPRISE’ MONSTROUS AND DIASPORA AND IDENTITY IN EARLY MODERN OBJECTS’ ART’ Chair LAURA KOUNINE (Max Chair CLAUDIA JARZEBOWSKI Chair STEPHEN CUMMINS (Max Planck-Institute for Human (Freie Universität Berlin) Planck-Institute for Human Development) Development) FRANK BRANDSMA (University of BRÍD PHILLIPS (The University of ISABELLA AUGART (Universität Utrecht) Western Australia) Hamburg) ‘“Al was hi sward, wat scaetde ‘“Devils Will the Blackest Sins Put ‘Affective Regimes in Maíno’s The dat?”: Courtly Cultural Exchange in on”: The Emotional Register of Recapture of Bahia (1634–1635)’ the Roman van Moriaen’ Colour’ CAROLYNE LARRINGTON ANNA KOLOS (Adam Mickiewicz CHRISTINE UNGRUH (Freie (University of Oxford) University Poznań) Universität Berlin) ‘Playing it Cool: Encounters with the ‘Medieval Emotions towards ‘De profundis: How the Early Other in Old Norse Prose Genres’ Monstrous Races: Mappae Mundi Christian Desert Fathers Affect the between Word and Image’ Olivetans and their Funerary Rites at Monte Oliveto Maggiore in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries’ FRANCISCA HOYER (Uppsala JETTE LINAA (Moesgaard Museum) University) ‘Home is Where the Heart is: ‘Writing another Christina. Body and Longing and Belonging Seen Emotions in Queen Christina’s through the Possessions of Dutch Memoirs.’ Immigrants in Early Modern Denmark’ 4:15 – 4:30 pm Break 4:30 – 6:00 pm Parallel Sessions 2 (A-B) 2A ‘MISSIONARIES AND TRAVELLERS IN ASIAN 2B ‘MUSIC, BALLADS, TRAVEL WARNINGS: SOCIETIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH EMOTIONAL RESPONSES TO CHANGE’ CENTURIES: DIFFERENCE, EXOTICISM AND THE WONDROUS’ Chair XENIA VON TIPPELSKIRCH (Humboldt- Chair FELICITA TRAMONTANA (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Universität zu Berlin) Berlin) STEPHEN CUMMINS (Max Planck-Institute for Human CAROL WILLIAMS (Monash University/Melbourne) Development) ‘Avignon 1309–1377: Site of Cultural Exchange in Music’ ‘Matteo Ripa’s Mission in China and Lucio Wu’s Life in Italy: Emotional Interpretation and Interaction’ ELISA FREI (University of Trieste) UNA MCILVENNA (University of Kent) ‘“Digitus Dei est hic”: The Best Candidate to the Indies ‘Sent to Virginny: Early Modern Ballads about the New (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Century)’ World’ HUNTER C. BANDY (Duke University) EVA JOHANNA HOLMBERG (University of Helsinki) ‘Wondering at the Indian Landscape: An Iranian ‘Sadness and Sickness in Early Modern English Travel Philosopher’s Emotional Journeys’ Accounts: Travel Advice, Warnings and Survival’ 7:00 pm CONFERENCE DINNER Restaurant 'Shayan', Goltzstraße 23, 10781 Berlin

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DAY 2: FRIDAY, 1 JULY 2016 AT THE SEMINARIS CAMPUSHOTEL BERLIN, TAKUSTRASSE 39, 14195 BERLIN 9:00 – 10:30 am Parallel Sessions 3 (A-C) 3A ‘EMOTION AND TEMPORALITY 3B ‘EMOTIONS IN THE COLONIAL 3C ‘EMOTIONAL STRATEGIES IN IN MEDIEVAL GERMAN AMERICAS’ THE CONFLICTS OF WAR AND LITERATURE’ CONQUEST: NEW SPAIN AND CIVIL WAR ENGLAND’ Chair FRANCISCA HOYER (Uppsala Chair EVA LEHNER (University of Chair JENNY SPINKS (University of University) Duisburg-Essen) Manchester) JUTTA EMING (Freie Universität JACQUELINE HOLLER (University of MANUEL KOHLERT (Humboldt- Berlin) Northern British Columbia) Universität zu Berlin) ‘Travel and Timelessness’ ‘Memory and Melancholy in the ‘Love, Fear and Conquest – Or, How Cortés Conspiracy of 1566’ Emotions and Legal Norms during the Spanish Expansion in Sixteenth- Century Latin America were Interconnected’ ELKE KOCH (Freie Universität REBECCA NOBLE (University of HEATHER DALTON (The University Berlin) Warwick) of Melbourne) ‘Never Trust a Travelling Scholar: ‘Madness, Emotional Regimes and ‘Putting on a Brave Face: Adopting Figurations of Trust, Faith and Governance in the Bourbon Mexican Old World Battlefield Apparitions as Knowledge in Late Medieval Short Missions’ New World Representations of Narratives’ Triumph’ JOHANNES TRAULSEN (Freie ANDREA NOBLE (Durham FINOLA FINN (Durham University) Universität Berlin) University) ‘The Spread of Despair? The New ‘A River of Love. Time and Space in ‘Response’ Model Army and Sectarian Beliefs’ Middle High German Monastic Literature’ 10:30 – 11:00 am Morning Tea 11:00 – 12:30 pm KEYNOTE LECTURE: LYNDAL ROPER (University of Oxford) ‘Luther and Emotions in the Reformation’ 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 – 3:00 pm Parallel Sessions 4 (A-C) 4A ‘EMOTIONS, PLACE AND SPACE 4B ‘EMOTIONS, FAMILIES AND 4C ‘IMAGES AND OBJECTS: IN MEDIEVAL LITERARY GENRES’ HOUSEHOLDS IN EARLY MODERN EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT, EUROPE’ RESONANCE AND POWER IN EUROPEAN AND NON-EUROPEAN WORLDS’ Chair GIOVANNI TARANTINO (The Chair LUCA SCHOLZ (Freie Chair STEFAN HANß (University of University of Western Australia) Universität Berlin) Cambridge) ANDREW LYNCH (The University of FRANCESCA BREGOLI (Queens LISA BEAVEN (The University of Western Australia) College/City University of New York) Melbourne) ‘On the Outer: Emotion and Exile in ‘“Your Mother is Three-Quarters ‘Raising the Spirits with the Sight of Medieval Hagiography and Dead Because of You”: Business Various Colours: An Exchange of Romance’ and Emotions in a Trans- Coins for Paintings between Rome Mediterranean Household’ and Madrid in 1658’ SARAH MCNAMER (Georgetown FEDERICA FRANCESCONI (The JENNY SPINKS (The University of University) College of Idaho) Manchester) ‘Patience and the Conquest of ‘Emotions, Cosmopolitan Intimacy ‘Riding the Juggernaut: Embodied Medieval Ireland’ and Community Control within the Emotions, Indian Ritual Processions Jewish Household in Early Modern and Early Modern Northern Italy’ European Visual Culture’

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JÖRG WETTLAUFER (University of MADELINE SHANAHAN (La Trobe MARK WILLIAMS (Cardiff University) Göttingen) University) ‘An Emotional Company: Mobility, ‘Emotional Encounters in Late ‘“Their Nurses Whom They Love So Community and Control in the Medieval Travel Accounts’ Well”: Infant Feeding and Colonial Records of the English East-India Discourse in Early Modern Ireland’ Company’ 3:00 – 3:30 pm Afternoon Tea 3:30 – 5:00 pm Parallel Sessions 5 (A-C) 5A ‘EMOTIONAL ENCOUNTERS AND 5B ‘LITERARY GENRES AND 5C ‘EMOTIONS AND CULTURAL CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE HOLY EMOTIONS WORK IN THE EXCHANGE IN MEDIEVAL LATIN ROMAN EMPIRE AND OTTOMAN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: AND NORDIC TEXTS’ TURKEY, SIXTEENTH TO DIDACTICISM, COHESION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES’ FRIENDSHIP’ Chair DANIELA HACKE (Freie Chair PHILIPP NIELSEN (Max Chair JUTTA EMING (Freie Universität Berlin) Planck-Institute for Human Universität Berlin) Development) HANNES ZIEGLER (Ludwig- AMIR MINSKY (New York University JANE-HELOISE NANCARROW (The Maximilians-Universität München) Abu Dhabi and Max Planck-Institute University of Western Australia) ‘Emotional Disorder: The Holy for Human Development) ‘Bishop Wulfstan's Wailing: Roman Empire’s Confrontation with ‘Portable Emotionologies: Didactic Negotiating the Norman Conquest the Turkish Threat and the Emotions and the Franco-German through Imperial Anglo- Confessional Divide (1586–1606)’ Cultural Exchange, c.1770–1800’ Romanesque Architecture’ CHARLOTTE COLDING SMITH CHRISTINA BECKERS (Carl von SARAH MEACHAM (Virginia (German Maritime Museum) Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) Commonwealth University, ‘Fear and Fascination in Libraries: ‘Familiarising the Unfamiliar: On Richmond) Books Describing and Depicting the the Emotional Appropriation of the ‘“The Affable Cheerfulness of a Ottoman Empire in Early Libraries Other in Eighteenth-Century Gentleman”: Status and Emotions and Kunstkammer Collections’ Transcontinental Family in Eighteenth-Century America’ Correspondence’ STEFAN HANß (University of KATRINA O’LOUGHLIN (The TARA AUTY (The University of Cambridge) University of Western Australia) Western Australia) ‘Hair Removal, Cultural Contacts and ‘The “Feeling of Friendship”: ‘Dislocated Passions in Filelfo’s Emotions in German Captivity Emotional and Literary Bonds Amyris: The Divisive Figure of Narratives of the Early Modern Across Europe in the Eighteenth Mehmet II in Neo-Latin Epic’ Mediterranean’ Century’

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DAY 3: SATURDAY, 2 JULY 2016 AT HOLZLAUBE FU BERLIN, FABECKSTRAßE 23-25, 14195 BERLIN 9:00 – 10:30 am Parallel Sessions 6 (A-C) 6A ‘TRAVELLERS, TRADERS AND 6B ‘PERFORMING EMOTION AND 6C ‘MISSIONARIES AND CROSS-CULTURAL EXCHANGE: MAKING BOUNDARIES: CRYING, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: GLOBAL INDIA, JAVA AND THE CANARY SEX AND LAUGHTER IN EARLY CIRCULATIONS AND CULTURAL ISLANDS’ MODERN SPAIN AND NORTH ADAPTATIONS OF EMOTIONS’ AMERICA’ Chair SABINE SCHÜLTING (Freie Chair CHARLES ZIKA (The Chair ANDREW LYNCH (The Universität Berlin) University of Melbourne) University of Western Australia) NATSUKO AKAGAWA (The THOMAS C. DEVANEY (University of KATHERINE FAULL (Bucknell University of Queensland) Helsinki/ University of Rochester) University) and CHRISTINA ‘Curiosity, Love and Loathing: The ‘“The People Burst Out Crying”: PETTERSON (University of Emotional Threads in Seventeenth- Performing Emotion in the Newcastle) Century European Encounters with Presence of Travellers’ ‘Bodies in Heathen Places: an Exotic East’ Regulating Marriage without a State’ AGATA BŁOCH (Polish Academy of UMBERTO GRASSI (The University PÄIVI RÄISÄNEN-SCHRÖDER Sciences and New University of of Sydney) (University of Helsinki) Lisbon) ‘Sexual Transgressions, Emotions ‘Suffering Missionaries, Joyful ‘From Passion to Compassion in the and Cross-Cultural Interactions in Martyrs and Death-Bed Tropics: the Emotional History of Early Modern Spain’ Conversions: Death and Emotions in the Sixteenth-Century Cape Verde’ Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth- Century Jesuit Journals’ CLAUDIA JARZEBOWSKI (Freie ROBIN MACDONALD (The University JACQUELINE VAN GENT (The Universität Berlin) of Western Australia) University of Western Australia) ‘Ex Occidente Lux: The impact of ‘Laughter and Affect in ‘Circulating Emotions, Objects and cultural contact on emotion and Seventeenth-Century North People: Global Missions in the Early sexuality in seventeenth century’s American Colonial Encounters’ Modern World’ global history’ 10:30 – 11:00 am Morning Tea 11:00 – 12:30 pm KEYNOTE LECTURE: LAURA M. STEVENS (The University of Tulsa) ‘Fostering and Theft: The Hunger for Children’ 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 – 3:00 pm Parallel Sessions 7 (A-B) 7A ‘JESUIT EMOTIONS ON THE MOVE’ 7B ‘EMOTIONAL IDENTITIES IN THE EXPANDING COLONIAL WORLD OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES: FEAR, LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP’ Chair JACQUELINE VAN GENT (The University of Chair HANNES ZIEGLER (Ludwig-Maximilians- Western Australia) Universität München) SPENCER J. WEINREICH (University of Oxford) NICHOLAS B. MILLER (University of Göttingen) ‘Emoting the Spanish Armada: Pedro de Ribadeneyra, ‘Emotional Geopolitics and the Enlightened Public S. J. and the Emotionality of Early Modern Catholic– Sphere: The Anxious Polemics of Naturalisation and Protestant Encounters’ Polygamy in Eighteenth-Century Britain’ ELEONORA RAI (The University of Western Australia) LISA O’CONNELL (The University of Queensland) ‘The Emotions of Conversion: Visual Techniques and ‘Sensible Distances: The Colonial Projections of Preaching in Paolo Segneri Senior’s Missions (1665– Therese Huber’ 1694)’ LEONARDO COHEN (Catholic University of FRANCESCO DE TONI (The University of Western Portugal/Lisbon and Ben-Gurion University of the Australia) Negev) ‘Emotions and Friendship in a Nineteenth-Century ‘The Jesuits in Ethiopia: Their Experience of Defeat and Western Australian Mission’ Exile (1632–1634)’

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3:00 – 3:30 pm Afternoon Tea 3:30 – 5:00 pm ROUND TABLE Chair CHARLES ZIKA (The University of Melbourne) UTE FREVERT (Max Planck-Institute for Human Development) DANIELA HACKE (Freie Universität Berlin) ANDREW LYNCH (The University of Western Australia) MARGRIT PERNAU (Max Planck-Institute for Human Development) JACQUELINE VAN GENT (The University of Western Australia) and CHARLES ZIKA (The University of Melbourne) 5:00 pm Thanks and Farewell

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Kulturwissenschaft and head of the department. Her research interests focus on popular religious practices in KEYNOTES: modern Germany, which she studies using historical and ethnographic methods. She has written on the shifting Lyndal Roper meanings of black madonnas (‘From Majesty to Mystery: (University of Oxford) Change in the Meanings of Black Madonnas from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries’, American

Historical Review, 107, 5 (2002): 1412–40), on Marian ‘LUTHER AND EMOTIONS IN THE REFORMATION’ apparition cults in postwar Germany (Rosenkranz und Kriegsvisionen: Marienerscheinungskulte im 20 Jahrhundert Lyndal Roper is Regius Professor of History at the University [TVV-Mitglieder, 2006]) and the emotional practices of Oxford, the first woman and the first Australian to hold the of Protestant worship in Wilhelmine and present-day post. She is a leading researcher in early modern German Germany (several current articles and English-language book history, and a pioneer of gender history. She is a Fellow of in preparation). She has also written on practice theory as an both the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the approach to the history of emotions (‘Are Emotions a Kind of British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, an Practice (and Is That What Makes Them Have a History)? A honorary professor at The University of Melbourne and a Bourdieuian Approach to Understanding Emotion’, History member of Advisory Board for the ARC Centre of Excellence and Theory, 51, 2 (2012): 193–220). Currently, she is for the History of Emotions (Europe, 1100–1800). collaborating with Pamela Klassen (University of Toronto and recipient of the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation) on an international project, Monique Scheer ‘Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies’. (University of Tübingen)

‘FETISHIZING EMOTIONS’ Laura M. Stevens (The University of Tulsa) The anthropology of Christianity has developed some interesting concepts for understanding the mission ‘FOSTERING AND THEFT: THE HUNGER FOR encounter outside Europe and, as I would like to argue, CHILDREN’ within Europe as well. It is against the background of this literature that I use the historical term ‘fetish’ as a The fifteenth through eighteenth centuries saw springboard for thinking about the extent to which dramatic growth in what might be termed an emotions might be considered a comparable kind of intercontinental traffic in the young. Through chattel object. Using material from ethnographic and historical slavery, captivity, orphaning amidst migration, research on Protestant worship in Germany, I will show indenture, residential missionary schools and cross- that emotions have, in fact, been treated as something cultural fostering, unprecedented numbers of the very similar, bringing up issues of the ‘proper’ young grew up – or died before growing up – far from distribution of agency and the moral implications that the communities in which they were born. Fuelling ensue. much of this displacement was a hunger for foreign children, who were sought out as labourers or slaves, Monique Scheer received her doctorate in Empirische as substitutes for lost family, as translators and Kulturwissenschaft (Historical and Cultural Anthropology) intermediaries, or as instruments through which from the University of Tübingen in 2006. She worked at peoples sought to compete with and alter each other. Tübingen as a pre- and postdoctoral fellow at the The global history of displaced children is of course Collaborative Research Center (SFB 437) on War Experience dense with feeling. This talk will explore some of until 2008, when she joined the Center for the History of those feelings by attending to three stories that unfold Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human across or at the edges of the Atlantic: of European Development in Berlin. In 2011 she returned to the University of Tübingen, where she is currently Professor of Empirische children held captive by indigenous Americans, of 8 abstracts

African children kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Beyond the global movement of people, this encounter Americas and Europe, and of indigenous American led to a cultural engagement of mutual fascination and West African children sent away from their between West and East, as well as fierce rejection. parents to be fostered by English Christian This manifested itself in texts and the appropriation of missionaries. It will ask not only what feelings found cultural artefacts, in the expression of love and lust as expression within these scenarios, but also whether well as persecution, and physically, in children of mixed narratives of cross-cultural displacements of the parentage as well as expulsion. All this took place young – narratives sometimes made available to large within a wider range of binaries: of emerging national audiences through print – enhanced the affective identities and ethnic hybridities; of new centres of constellation of childhood as a site of sentimentality, power and the emerging importance of peripheries; of intensity and tenderness. technologies and the re-enchantment of traditional arts; and of globalisation and seclusion. Laura M. Stevens is Associate Professor of English at The University of Tulsa, co-editor of Tulsa Studies in Women’s This paper, as a part of larger project, explores the role Literature and President of the Society of Early of emotions in Dutch encounters (in the context of the Americanists. Her scholarship focuses on the circulation of VOC, Dutch East Indies Trading Company texts, genres, emotions and ideas around the British headquartered in Batavia, Java) with the East, in Atlantic world before 1800, and she is especially interested in religious discourses, women’s literature, networks of particular Japan, and their performativity in new forms shared affect, depictions of colonised peoples and American and public spaces in European and non-European Indian studies. She is the author of The Poor Indians: British contexts. Drawing on an analysis of European and Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility Japanese textual material (letters and diaries), the (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), and is completing paper analyses the emotional transformations and a book manuscript titled ‘Friday’s Tribe: Eighteenth-Century appropriations responses to the experience of English Missionary Fantasies’. Her work has been encountering different societies generated. Finally, it supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for explores the emotional thread that enables the present the Humanities, the Huntington Library, the John Carter to re-experience the original encounter that links past Brown Library, the American Philosophical Society and the Oklahoma Humanities Council. with present.

Natsuko Akagawa is tenured at the Royal Melbourne Institute

of Technology University, but will take up a position with The PAPERS: University of Queensland in the second half of 2016. Natusuko is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Natsuko Akagawa Excellence for the History of Emotions, with a project entitled (The University of Queensland) ‘Curiosity, Lust and Love: Dutch Encounters with the East (1650–1800)’. She has been a visiting researcher at the East-

West Centre, University of Hawaii, Manoa, and the ‘CURIOSITY, LOVE AND LOATHING: THE EMOTIONAL International Institute of Asian Studies/Leiden University THREADS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPEAN (Netherlands), as well as guest lecturer at Goethe-Universität ENCOUNTERS WITH AN EXOTIC EAST’ Frankfurt and Assistant Professor at The University of Western Australia. Her recent publications include: The sixteenth century saw the arrival of the first ‘Rethinking the Global Heritage Discourse: Overcoming “East” Europeans to make contact with the societies and and “West”?’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 22.1 cultures of the (Far) East. Initially, Portuguese- (2016): 14–25; ‘Intangible Heritage and Embodiment: Japan’s

Christian missionaries, then employees of Dutch Influence on the Global Heritage Discourse’, in Intangible Heritage, ed. L. Smith and N. Akagawa, (Wiley-Blackwell, trading companies, settled in parts of Japan. The 2015); and her monograph Heritage Conservation in Japan’s ‘exotic East’ was discovered, therefore, not just by Cultural Diplomacy (Routledge, 2014). A second edition of the Portuguese and Dutch nationals but also by their co-edited collection Intangible Heritage is under contract for employees of many other ethnic and cultural 2017. backgrounds (European and Asian), who established a limited foothold on Japan.

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Isabella Augart history of emotion. She has organised three conferences (Universität Hamburg) on the early modern discourse of emotions and is the editor of the conference proceedings. ‘AFFECTIVE REGIMES IN MAÍNO’S THE RECAPTURE OF BAHIA (1634–1635)’ Tara Auty The Salón de Reinos at Buen Retiro palace in Madrid (The University of Western Australia) was decorated with a cycle of paintings to commemorate important battles of the Spanish ‘DISLOCATED PASSIONS IN FILELFO’S AMYRIS: THE armies and provides an interesting case study for DIVISIVE FIGURE OF MEHMET II IN NEO-LATIN EPIC’ the relation of emotions, politics and the visual arts. The focus of my paper will be Juan Bautista Maíno’s The successful incursion by the young Mehmet II in painting The Recapture of Bahia (1634–1635) that 1453 on the city of Constantinople marked the end of depicts the recapture of the port of Salvador da the once-great and long-beleaguered Byzantine Bahia in Brazil from the Dutch for the Iberian Empire. This cataclysm had far-reaching Union in 1625. Beside a topographical landscape, consequences for not only communities within successful military leader Fadrique Àlvares de Byzantium itself, but for many communities across the Toledo e Mendoza points to a portrait of Philipp III Middle East and Europe. In Italy, the social and political of Portugal trampling on the allegorical figures of impact of this event was immediately manifested in the War, Heresy and Wrath. The foreground shows the art and literature of the Quattrocento period. This surrender to the Spanish crown, but also the impact has not thus far been conceptualised in terms suffering and aftermath of war with figures helping of the history of community emotions, and this paper a wounded soldier. Incorporating work on the visual proposes to do so with reference to a particularly history of emotion, political iconography and early fascinating (and as yet still relatively overlooked) Neo- modern socio-political topographies, I will investigate Latin epic poem: the Amyris of Gian Mario Filelfo (1426– questions emerging from current debates on period 1480). In contrast to other depictions of Mehmet II in concepts of emotions: How are individual emotions Italian epics written during this period, such as those of conventionalised and expressed in culturally defined Zuppardo in the Alfonseis and Pusculo in the collective codes? What role do the arts play in the Constantinopolis, Filelfo’s characterisation of the construction of political power? Discussing the Ottoman sultan devolves from being the object of concept of affective regimes in Maíno’s work, this praise as the rightful conqueror to the object of paper will suggest that the painting not only makes righteous vengeance in the poet’s call to crusade. This evident the relations of artistic and social rivalry in inconsistency betrays the social anxieties and the the Spanish court, but also reflects contemporary cultural instabilities to which the author was discourse on the appropriate affective responses responding, and working within, as his poem towards one’s own emotional community and both the underwent revision and re-purposing. One of the main Brazilian and Dutch Other. aspects of this poem that I will focus on is Filelfo’s dislocation of emotional behaviours and values Isabella Augart is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the traditionally associated with the Roman heroes of epic History of Art Department at the University of Hamburg. She and their communities, to the foreign leader of the holds a Masters degree from the University of Oxford and a Ottoman Turks and the collective groups affected by Doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin. Her doctoral thesis the Fall of Constantinople. focused on alterpieces with embedded miraculous images in early modern Italy (‘Rahmenbilder. Altarbilder mit Tara Auty is a PhD candidate in Classics & Ancient History at Eingebettetem Gnadenbild im Frühneuzeitlichen Italien’). She The University of Western Australia. Her thesis focuses on has previously held fellowships at the Kunsthistorisches the intersection of community emotions and the genre of Institut in Florenz, the Max Planck-Institute and the Bavarian Neo-Latin Epic in the Quattrocento, with special attention to a Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments in sub-category of Epic poems written in the aftermath of the Munich. Her current research on Italian painting, 1300– fall of Constantinople (1453). In 2012, she graduated with 1600, focuses on questions of materiality and temporality, First Class Honours in Latin and Medieval and Early Modern concepts of nature, sensual perception and the visual 10 abstracts

Studies, with a thesis titled ‘Animi Turbati Vulgi: Community manuscript sources in Persian and Arabic composed by Emotions in Vergil’s Aeneid and Petrarch’s Africa.’ Iranian scholars who ventured to various Indian states detailing Shi‘a Muslim thought that demands a re-reading of Irano-centric Shi‘a Islam. Writing Persianate India back into Hunter C. Bandy the history of greater Iran, her research utilises critical theory to interpret manuscript sources that further show how (Duke University) materiality, affect and ecological thought mattered to Muslim scholars. The research examines how religious thought ‘WONDERING AT THE INDIAN LANDSCAPE: AN permeated natural philosophical and empirical scientific texts IRANIAN PHILOSOPHER’S EMOTIONAL JOURNEYS’ from this era.

The history of emotions enables innovative readings of Islamic cosmopolitanism and trans-human ethical Lisa Beaven discourse from the early modern Persianate world. (The University of Melbourne) Drawing on the work of William Reddy and Mary-Jane Rubenstein, I analyse the discourse of a largely ‘RAISING THE SPIRITS WITH THE SIGHT OF VARIOUS unknown Iranian itinerant philosopher-physician COLOURS: AN EXCHANGE OF COINS FOR PAINTINGS named Nizam al-Din Ahmad Gilani (d. 1059AH/1650CE), BETWEEN ROME AND MADRID IN 1658’* who travelled extensively in the domains of Mughal India and the Deccan Sultanates. Gilani’s emotional This paper examines an exchange that took place in experience, represented in a variety of his extant 1658 between Camillo Massimo, who had just finished manuscript sources, reveals the significance of his tenure as papal nuncio in Madrid, and Donna affective awe and wonder for informing proper Lorenza Cardenas, a Spanish noblewoman. In order to philosophical habitus in a mid-seventeenth-century obtain a precious set of coins and medals from Donna Indo-Iranian context. This paper will argue that Gilani’s Lorenza, Camillo Massimo undertook to commission in affective experience of the natural world allows us to exchange 35 paintings from the ‘best’ painters begin discussing how emotional expressions not only available in Rome. The correspondence, which is help to justify the pursuit of natural philosophy, but also extensive, involved a number of middle-men, including offer insights into the formation of new ethical Giovanni Pietro Bellori, an art theorist and antiquarian, relationships between investigating Muslim subjects Giacomo Fantuzzi, a well-known travel writer and and their objects of study. Thaumazein, or affective secretary to the nuncio in Spain, and Antonazzi, a wonder that induces philosophical reasoning, serves as painter. Donna Lorenza Cardenas was a pious the basis from which not only natural philosophical noblewoman interested in devotional paintings to reasoning may take place, but also establishes a deeply meditate and pray with, while Camillo Massimo was an subjective mystical experience of the sonorous antiquarian passionately involved in ancient Roman phenomenal world. Gilani repeatedly demonstrates the classical culture. Divided by national and gender affective intrusion of the world into his psyche through differences, they were also separated by their differing claiming surprise and wonder at the atmosphere, emotional investment in the objects being exchanged. human body, and plant and animal life. His surprise The letters provide a wealth of detail about perceived extends to his own encounters with non-Muslim differences between nations in aesthetic preferences, humans (Hindus) that permit greater ethical proximity. as well as concerns around the issue of facial My paper will conclude by showing how innovative expression. readings of Muslim ethical reasoning arise from such encounters with non-human and non-Muslim Others, My concerns in this paper are to examine the different which require deep analysis of emotions and personal emotional and intellectual expectations of both parties, affects. and to explore the affective nature of their relationship with the objects involved, rather than to chart the Hunter C. Bandy is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program perhaps inevitable angry recriminations that were the in Religion at Duke University. Her research focuses on consequence of this undertaking. To borrow from the Islamic intellectual history of Safavid Iran and Persianate terminology of Sara Ahmed, I am interested in the India, 1500–1700. Hunter’s particular focus is on the neglected 11 abstracts

emotional resonance of such objects and the ways in constructed through these letters, that worked as a which emotion circulates between people and objects, framework of reference for affective engagement with sometimes adhering to them so that they become remote practices and artefacts. ‘sticky with affect’. I will analyse Donna Lorenza’s request for a particular subject to ‘alleviate her By focusing on a selection of letters from the collection melancholy’ in the context of the preoccupation of of intercepted mail preserved in the records of the seventeenth-century art theorists that art should British High Court of Admiralty, my paper explores the express the affections and passions of the soul. ways in which ordinary women and men, who had left their home country yet sought to stay connected to *This paper is part of a joint research project undertaken family and friends, rendered their experience with the with José-Luis Colomer. unfamiliar as emotionally comprehensible. Informed by practice theory, memory culture and sensory history, Lisa Beaven is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the the paper conceives of these letters as building the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the space in which practices of making sense of (and thus History of Emotions (Europe, 1100–1800), based at The co-constructing) the Other through emotionalisation University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on art were performed and negotiated. Within these patronage and collecting in seventeenth-century Rome and practices, it is argued, and by approaching the her project with the Centre examines the sensory and emotional reception of religious painting and sculpture. She unfamiliar through familiarisation, the reinforcing has published widely on aspects of collecting and patronage, moment of European mentalities was challenged by particularly on the paintings of Claude Lorrain, landscape transformative effects of the Other. This occurred, I painting and the Roman Campagna, most recently in The Site argue, as the Other became familiar to those exposed of Rome: Studies in the Art and Topography of Rome 1400–1750, to it in constant encounter and vice versa – all fuelled ed. David R. Marshall (L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2014). She is by the intention of remaining intelligible and close to the author of An Ardent Patron: Cardinal Camillo Massimo and family members on their respective sides of the ocean. his Artistic and Antiquarian Circle (Paul Holberton Publishing and Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2010). With Christina Beckers graduated from the Carl von Ossietzky Professor Angela Ndalianis she holds an ARC Discovery University of Oldenburg in 2008, with the first State Grant, ‘Spatial Encounters: The Baroque, the Neo-Baroque examination for grammar school teaching. Her thesis and the Senses’. focused on language acquisition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 2009 she was research assistant to Professor Dr Dagmar Freist, Chair of Early Modern History at Christina Beckers the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. She is also (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) project coordinator of the Prize Papers project at the University of Oldenburg (prizepapers.de), the Prize Papers ‘FAMILIARISING THE UNFAMILIAR: ON THE Database project (in cooperation with The National Archives, UK, and the GHI London) and the European Prize Papers EMOTIONAL APPROPRIATION OF THE “OTHER” IN Network (europp.net). Her PhD project focuses on the EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TRANSCONTINENTAL negotiation of family relations in the seventeenth and FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE’ eighteenth centuries. She is particularly interested in theoretical impulses from material and memory culture In the eighteenth century, trans-maritime epistolary studies, as well as sensory history. exchange not only worked as a bridging medium to ensure family cohesion across continents, but was also employed to reflect on cultural encounters and experiences of the Other in New World contexts. Through this practice of dealing with the unfamiliar in a particularly familiar medium, these encounters and experiences were integrated into the acquainted emotional repertoire of the family, and could thus be made comprehensible in an immensely efficient way. In other words, it was the virtual space of the family,

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Agata Błoch (Polish Academy of Sciences and New University of Lisbon) Frank Brandsma (Utrecht University) ‘FROM PASSION TO COMPASSION IN THE TROPICS: THE EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE SIXTEENTH- ‘“AL WAS HI SWARD, WAT SCAETDE DAT?”: COURTLY CENTURY CAPE VERDE’ CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THE ROMAN VAN MORIAEN’

This paper analyses the relationship between the The Middle Dutch romance Moriaen features a black- emotions of the travellers who stopped over at the skinned knight as one of its heroes. His blackness Cape Verde islands and the first cross-cultural elicits quite different emotional reactions from Arthur’s interactions there. The undervalued archipelago of knights and from common people. These reactions will Cape Verde was a first, silent carrier of culture, people be compared to the way characters in Middle Dutch and exotic products in the early sixteenth century. It epic texts react to Saracens. Whereas in the epic story was famous for being a strategic place in overseas world, the encounter with a male Other elicits journeys between Europe, Africa and the Americas. animosity and full combat mode, courtly romance There are a great number of explorers, adventurers, takes a different position. Moriaen eventually turns out slavers and pirates who shared their feelings in their to be the son of one of Arthur’s knights, and his travel journals while anchoring in the islands. Special handsomeness, lineage and prowess overrule the attention is paid to the emotions that motivated risk- negative reactions to his otherness. How his father taking, such as fear, ambition, aspiration, belief, desire, came to the faraway country of Moriane and fell in love expectation, promise or eagerness, illustrated by the with a princess will also be discussed (in relation to the desire of one of those explorers, ‘to discover new contact and exchange topic of the conference) and countries and to try my luck’. compared to a similar journey to Endi in India in the Roman van Walewein. The chronological analysis of such documents leads us to emotional travel through both the Atlantic World and Frank Brandsma is Associate Professor in Comparative the early modern human mind from the late fifteenth to Literature (Middle Ages) at Utrecht University. His research the early seventeenth century – from passionate focuses on narrative techniques in Arthurian romances of Old exploration to compassionate solidarity and French and other languages. In 2010, he published The Interlace Structure of the Third Part of the Prose Lancelot understanding. The travel narrative provides a wider (Boydell & Brewer). With Carolyne Larrington and Corinne view on the sixteenth-century phenomena of Cape Saunders, he co-edited the recent essay collection, Emotions Verde, which was internationalised over the century. It in Medieval Arthurian Literature (D. S. Brewer, 2015). was transformed from an absolutely unexplored place to the heart of trade routes and then to total abandonment. The paper not only discusses the main Francesca Bregoli emotional theories related to the subject, but also (Queens College/City University of New York) provides a wider perspective explaining the development and changes of human feelings ‘“YOUR MOTHER IS THREE-QUARTERS DEAD throughout the sixteenth century. BECAUSE OF YOU”: BUSINESS AND EMOTIONS IN A

TRANS-MEDITERRANEAN HOUSEHOLD’ Agata Błoch is a PhD candidate with the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences and a graduate student in the Centre for History Overseas at the New University of Lisbon While the practices of diasporic merchants have been (Portugal). She obtained her Masters degree in Latin primarily studied by economic historians who American Studies at the Warsaw University (Poland). Agata concentrate on their business strategies, we still need was an exchange student at the University of Brasilia (Brazil), to fully understand the role that emotions played in the Federal University of Uberlandia (Brazil), the University of shaping cross-cultural trade. Among Jewish historians Santa Cruz do Sul (Brazil) and the New University of Lisbon there is a broad consensus that trans-regional family (Portugal). ties were crucial in ensuring the success of Sephardic

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ties maintained or challenged as family members Leonardo Cohen dispersed, given the difficulty that geographical (Catholic University of Portugal/Lisbon and Ben-Gurion distance created in preserving affective bonds and University of the Negev) reciprocal obligations? While family separation is often viewed as a natural ingredient of diasporic trade, with ‘THE JESUITS IN ETHIOPIA: THEIR EXPERIENCE OF fathers sending sons abroad to man commercial DEFEAT AND EXILE (1632–1634)’ outposts or marrying daughters off to cement alliances, it might be beneficial to consider these The year 1632 marks the end of an era in Ethiopian separations above all as emotionally fraught practices, history and in the history of the Society of Jesus. rather than simply rational business choices. Emperor Susenyos’s conversion to Catholicism in 1622 and the apparent triumph of Roman Catholicism were My paper will focus on a Jewish household with rendered an ephemeral episode. Fasilidas, Susenyos’s members scattered across politically and religiously successor, reversed Catholicism’s recent success and diverse Mediterranean spaces – Tunis, Livorno and removed the Catholic patriarch from his chair as Smyrna. The bulk of my evidence comes from the supreme authority of the Church in Ethiopia. Fasilidas personal letters of Italian Jewish merchant Joseph also banished the Jesuit missionaries to the shores of Franchetti. This unusual source offers a glimpse into the Red Sea, sending them back to Goa. This paper the complexity of familial relations as they evolved over explores how the emotions arising from the defeat and the course of 15 years (1776–1790), and into the exile of the Jesuits were articulated. How did the emotional world of a pious Jewish trader, filled with missionaries explain the change in their status from anxiety, anger and longing. Franchetti’s winners to that of a persecuted people? The long road correspondence illuminates the strategies with which to exile is reported extensively by authors such as he attempted to control and strengthen bonds with Father Manuel de Almeida, Father Manuel Barradas distant relatives, as well as to educate and socialise and Patriarch Afonso Mendes. The texts depict a long young sons living far away, preparing them for life in saga of suffering and uncertainty, dangers, indignities foreign regions whose customs were perceived as not and humiliations. This paper shows that ritual and only alien, but also potentially dangerous for Jewish devotion to various idealised biblical figures served as piety. Considering Franchetti’s engagement with the a palliative agent against this unbearable pain. The allure of acculturation and risks of estrangement helps experiences of figures in the Old and New Testament us to reinsert emotions into the study of Jewish functioned as a paradigm and mirror, and were merchant culture. essential tools for the mitigation of strong emotions such as anger, disappointment, pain and despair. Francesca Bregoli’s research concentrates on eighteenth- century Sephardic and Italian Jewish cultural history. She Leonardo Cohen obtained his PhD in General History from received a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania the University of Haifa. He has published several articles in in 2007, and held a JRF at the University of Oxford before the fields of Ethiopian studies and the history of the Society of joining Queens College. Francesca’s first book, Mediterranean Jesus, as well as a book, The Missionary Strategies of the Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Jesuits in Ethiopia (Harrassowitz, 2009). Cohen is a researcher Eighteenth-Century Reform (Stanford University Press, 2014), at the Center for the Study of Religious History at the Catholic a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, explores University of Portugal/Lisbon and at the Ben-Gurion Jewish interactions with Enlightenment culture and the University of the Negev. reforming-absolutist state. Her current project focuses on the creation and preservation of ties in transnational Jewish families whose members were scattered in the Mediterranean area.

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Stephen Cummins Heather Dalton (Max Planck-Institute for Human Development) (The University of Melbourne)

‘MATTEO RIPA’S MISSION IN CHINA AND LUCIO WU’S ‘PUTTING ON A BRAVE FACE: ADOPTING OLD WORLD LIFE IN ITALY: EMOTIONAL INTERPRETATION AND BATTLEFIELD APPARITIONS AS NEW WORLD INTERACTION’ REPRESENTATIONS OF TRIUMPH’

In 1723 Matteo Ripa began a nine-year Propaganda Fide In Northern Europe, images of Saint James the Greater mission to China. When he returned from China he depict the saint as a pilgrim with staff, prayer book and brought four Chinese boys, sons of converts, who were brimmed hat decorated with a scallop shell. On the the first members of his seminary in Naples for the Iberian Peninsula, however, the saint is generally training of Chinese-born missionaries: the Collegio dei portrayed very differently – on horseback trampling a Cinesi. At the court of the Kangxi emperor in Beijing, cowering Moor underfoot. This image, and others missionaries were minor members of a society in involving Christian saints intervening in battles, was which they had little authority but had to adapt to the transferred to Africa and then on to the Americas. complex games of etiquette that constituted the play of Within years of South America’s conquest, the Moor power at the Qing court. In his journal, Matteo recorded under the hooves of the triumphant Saint James was what he perceived as emotional differences between portrayed as an Amerindian. Although it is often the Chinese and European, especially the deceptions of assumed that these depictions represent an unfeeling Chinese civility and excessive male jealousy towards celebration of Iberian victory, the reality is more women. complex. In my paper, I will explore how cultural exchange and evolving emotional responses to This paper will analyse Ripa’s views of Chinese conversion and colonisation led both Iberian and emotional practices and his views on conversion. It will indigenous artists to quite literally carve victory out of also trace the emotional lives of the Chinese-born defeat. I will also look at how sixteenth- and missionaries and their experience in Naples. The major seventeenth-century outsiders responded to these case is that of Lucio Wu, one of the Chinese youths altered heroes of the Reconquista and the continuing brought back by Ripa on his return. Lucio was accused consequences of Iberia’s strong attachment to martial of being ‘obstinate’ and committing ‘many offenses, myths. incorrigible acts’. He had falsified a key to the rooms of others and then stolen clothes and shoes. The letters Heather Dalton is an ARC Early Career Research Fellow in of Ripa and Wu cover feelings of disappointment in the School of Historical & Philosophical Studies at The mission and the emotional dynamics between these University of Melbourne (and a member of the Cabot Project at the University of Bristol). The focus of her work is men. Ripa’s universal judgments about Chinese transnational relationships and family ties in trading emotions will be examined in relation to the texture of networks in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Atlantic. She this more personal history. is currently researching the experiences of the first English merchants in Mexico City. Her book, Merchants and Explorers: Stephen Cummins is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot and Networks of Atlantic the History of Emotions at the Max Planck-Institute for Exchange, 1500 to 1560, was published by Oxford University Human Development in Berlin. His research interests centre Press in June 2016. on early modern southern Italy and address the connections of emotions of relationship – love, hatred, jealousy – with legal and political contexts. He is revising his doctoral dissertation‚ ‘Enmity and Peace-Making in the Kingdom of Naples, c.1600–1700’ for publication, and is the editor of Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2016).

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Francesco De Toni linguistically performed in the letters of nineteenth-century (The University of Western Australia) churchmen, highlighting, especially, the relationship between the epistolary form, politeness and deference and the

expression of emotions. ‘EMOTIONS AND FRIENDSHIP IN A NINETEENTH-

CENTURY WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MISSION’

Thomas C. Devaney In this paper I analyse the social functions and the (University of Helsinki and University of Rochester) linguistic modalities of the expression of emotions in the correspondence between nineteenth-century ‘“THE PEOPLE BURST OUT CRYING”: PERFORMING missionaries in Australia and their friends in Australia EMOTION IN THE PRESENCE OF TRAVELLERS’ and overseas. Specifically, my study focuses on the private correspondence of the Spanish monk Rosendo Northern European visitors to early modern Spain were Salvado and of other Catholic missionaries in Western often surprised by the overt emotions displayed at Australia. In 1846, Salvado founded the Benedictine religious events, which could be so intense as to mission of New Norcia. The mission soon attracted disturb those unfamiliar with the experience. French monks and priests from various European countries, traveller Barthélemy Joly, for instance, complained some of who permanently migrated to Western about ‘the extreme, almost turbulent, impetuousness Australia. Many of these missionaries belonged to of the preacher and the continual sighs of the women, multicultural and multilingual networks of friendship so loud and forceful that they completely disrupt one’s with other European churchmen in Australia and attention’. Similar attitudes – ranging from dismissive abroad. The letters exchanged between the to shocked – are apparent in the recollections of other missionaries and their friends provide an interesting visitors, including Diego Cuelbis of Leipzig and Sir insight into the social role of friendship in missionary Richard Wynne. Yet for Spaniards, the very behaviours contexts and, in particular, into the emotions that that visitors decried were those central to the religious characterised this type of friendship in the nineteenth experience. Sobs, moans and even shouts and leaps century. Specifically, the encounter with the West were not distractions, but evidence that the proper Australian environment and with its inhabitants, the sentiments had been provoked. As Susan Karant-Nunn zeal and the hardships of missionary activities, and the and others have argued, Protestant and Catholic interpersonal dynamics between the missionaries authorities drew upon the late medieval legacy of generated a range of different emotional reactions in religious emotions in divergent ways, with Protestants these men, which are expressed in various ways in the generally choosing to suppress, and Catholics to correspondence with their friends. emphasise, affective religious experiences. These

competing emotional regimes eventually became Through the linguistic analysis of the missionaries’ linked not only to religious, but also to regional and letters, my paper meets three objectives: 1) it national, identities. Thus Joly, although a Catholic, describes how epistolarity enabled the long-distance could disparage ‘Spanish’ emotional displays. This maintenance of friendship bonds and emotional paper examines both how Spaniards presented their communities between churchmen; 2) it describes the modes of worship to visitors and the reactions of those role of friendship in managing the emotions generated visitors, focusing on how the presence of an Other by the missionary activity; 3) it provides insight into the affected emotional expression. Social psychologists emotional experience of some of the first European have shown that when a valued identity is challenged, a settlers in Western Australia. typical reaction is to over-demonstrate qualities

Francesco De Toni holds a BA in Modern Letters and an MA associated with that identity. Contact, therefore, in Modern Philology from the Catholic University of the intensified both the manifestation of religious emotions Sacred Heart of Milan. For his PhD project he is conducting a and the reactions of observers. linguistic analysis of the construction and expression of friendship in the correspondence of Rosendo Salvado’s Thomas C. Devaney is a scholar of late medieval and early epistolary networks. The project focuses on letters in Italian modern cultural history. He has published numerous articles and Spanish. It aims to investigate how friendship was (in Speculum, Medieval Encounters and Viator) as well as a

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monograph titled Enemies in the Plaza: Urban Spectacle and Liebes- und Abenteuerromanen des 12.-16. Jahrhunderts (de the End of Spanish Frontier Culture, 1460–1492 (University of Gruyter, 2006), and several articles on emotionality, Pennsylvania Press, 2016). Currently he is engaged in a performativity and violence in late medieval passion plays. project exploring the emotional and cognitive experience of romerías, or pilgrimages to local shrines, in early modern Iberia. The goals of this project include contributing to the Katherine Faull (Bucknell University) methodologies of the history of emotions and clarifying the often contradictory history of interfaith relations in early ‘BODIES IN HEATHEN PLACES: REGULATING modern Iberia. Thomas is a researcher with the Collegium MARRIAGE WITHOUT A STATE’ for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki and an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Rochester. This paper is jointly presented with Christina Petterson (University of Newcastle). Refer to entry for Christina Petterson for bio. Jutta Eming (Freie Universität Berlin) The expansion of the Moravian Church in the eighteenth century to the Atlantic world brought with it ‘TRAVEL AND TIMELESSNESS’ a need to formalise the pastoral care of its converted adherents. As had been the case in the European The absence of any experience of time has been congregations, the question of marriage, reproduction famously conceptualised by Michail Bakhtin as one of and sexuality were seen as central to the organisation the central characteristics of the adventure-novel. He of community life throughout the colonies of North also holds that, through their adventures, the America. However, what had been effective in protagonists often become acquainted with very exotic regulating marriage with European and settler lands but do so without becoming permanently marked congregations in North America, was finally deemed in any way by their exposure to foreignness. Bakhtin impossible to implement with converted non- speaks of an ‘abstract expanse of space’. He believes Europeans. The lack of civic laws, a particular mindset that the literary spaces do not stand in conjunction with cultivated by laws and a well-organised state meant special social or cultural characteristics of the cultural that the sexuality of non-European, or ‘heathen’, sphere in question. Everything is equally and abstractly congregants could not be regulated and ordered. For ‘alien’. In my talk I will examine what happens when this reason, in 1787 Bishop August Spangenberg drew the timelessness of adventure is related to up a set of instructions and an official statement emotionality: in particular, the experience of love. To (Gutachten) on the problem of marriage within the this end, I will compare episodes from of one of the ‘Heathen’ congregations. Middle High German novels about Alexander the Great (Straßburger Alexander, c.1180) to passages from one of Our paper will present a close reading of the Gutachten the German versions of the Apollonius of Tyre and its concerns with the challenge of regulating narratives (Heinrich von Neustadt, Apollonius von sexuality in the Moravian Atlantic world of the Tyrland, c.1300). eighteenth century. We will examine what Spangenberg regarded as the reasons and Jutta Eming is Professor of Medieval German literature at the assumptions that made a direct implementation of Institute for German and Dutch Philology, Freie Universität Zinzendorf's ‘sex-positive’ theology in a non-European Berlin. Her research interests include romances from the context inconceivable, and situate these assumptions High to the Late Middle Ages, genre theory and gender, in their respective material contexts. Drawing emotionality, performativity and pre-modern drama. She specifically on manuscript sources from the Archives in heads a project in the Freie Universität’s special research Herrnhut (Germany) that were written in the late 1700s centre, ‘Episteme in Motion’, on ‘The Marvelous as a to guide the spiritual advisors of the married choirs, Configuration of Knowledge in Medieval Literature’. Among this paper will explore how the challenges to the her publications are Funktionswandel des Wunderbaren: Studien zum‚ Bel Inconnu, zum Wigalois und zum Wigoleis vom regulated norms of Moravian sexuality (themselves the Rade (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1999); Emotion und subject of virulent contemporary attacks) necessitated Expression: Untersuchungen zu Deutschen und Französischen 17 abstracts

a redrawing of sexual frontiers within the Moravian early1650s. Moreover, it will be argued that the world. process of conversion can be seen as an emotional practice that could, at this time, be used as a method to Katherine Faull is Professor of German and Humanities at cope with the trials that civil war inflicted upon many Bucknell University, Lewisburg. Her latest book, Instructions individuals. for Body and Soul (Penn State University Press, 2017) provides a translation of the Instructions to the choir helpers of the Having previously completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at Moravian Church in the later part of the eighteenth century. The University of Melbourne, Finola Finn is currently Her previous book-length publications include her translated undertaking a PhD in History at Durham University. She is collection, Moravian Women’s Memoirs (Syracuse University researching the interwoven nature of melancholy and Press, 1997), and the edited collections Masculinity, Senses, religious despair in mid- to late seventeenth-century Spirit (Bucknell University Press, 2011), Anthropology and the England. This November, she will be speaking at the German Enlightenment (Bucknell University Press, 1998) and inaugural conference of the Limerick Early Modern Studies Translation and Culture (Bucknell University Press, 2004). She Forum. Earlier this year, she presented papers at the is the recipient of three major awards from the NEH for her Durham University Early Modern Postgraduate Conference archival work and is currently completing a translation of and St. Chad’s College Research Forum. In 2014, Finola Moravian mission diaries in the strategically important Native published her first peer-reviewed article in a special issue of American town of Shamokin, PA. the Australasian Journal of American Studies.

Finola Finn Federica Francesconi (Durham University) (The College of Idaho)

‘THE SPREAD OF DESPAIR? THE NEW MODEL ARMY ‘EMOTIONS, COSMOPOLITAN INTIMACY AND AND SECTARIAN BELIEFS’ COMMUNITY CONTROL WITHIN THE JEWISH

HOUSEHOLD IN EARLY MODERN ITALY’ From 1645 until their disbandment in 1660, the New

Model Army acted as a motor for the spread of radical In the eighteenth century female servants – Jewish, ideas across England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. In Christian and Muslim – and Black slaves working in Christopher Hill’s words, this Parliamentarian army Italian and Sephardi Jewish homes, were a diverse, ‘marched backwards and forwards across the country, complex and sizable population within Europe and the mixing up populations in a way previously unknown’. Mediterranean. They composed a significant group on This ‘mixing up’ brought previously disconnected the move throughout the early modern period. In some peoples into closer contact and, given the high number cases they were considered familial figures, while at of sectarian preachers that the New Model Army times they were viewed rather as ‘domestic enemies’. included, allowed for the exchange of radical religious These women had in common an ongoing ideas. This paper will focus on the spread of precariousness in their lives: they experienced Independent and Baptist predestinarian beliefs to protection, solidarity, seduction, rape, attempts at which the New Model Army gave rise, and the conversion and even sincere reciprocal religious subsequent experiences of conversion that these attraction. This paper explores testimonies recorded beliefs engendered. The doctrine of predestination, within both Jewish courts and civic magistracies in which held that God had preordained the eternal fate of Venice, Livorno, Modena and Mantua by Jewish and all individuals, unsurprisingly fostered emotional Muslim women who were pregnant by their responses in many concerned believers. It became householders or coworkers, and their neighbours clear that for those whose character was dominated by during the years 1690–1750. Through a combination of ‘the passion of sorrow’, this doctrine could foster paternalism, cohesiveness, innovation and feelings of doubt and result in religious despair. This surveillance, Italian Jewish communities could contain paper will examine the new emotional practices that destabilising behaviours within society, and reintegrate exposure to these beliefs generated amongst women who otherwise would have been tragically lost, communities as they came into contact with the by obliging seducers to marry or take care of them as preachers of the New Model Army in the late 1640s and

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well as their illegitimate children. This paper analyses schools from all over the continent asked insistently, how, beyond conventional legal practices, women at and with letters filled with pathos, enthusiasm and the times succeeded in exercising their ambitions, spirit of martyrdom, to be sent to China and Japan. strategies and emotional rhetoric. The testimonies of These two destinations in particular were ardently witnesses within the Jewish courts show that desired by many Italian Jesuits during the seventeenth neighbours, companions in work, friends and relatives and eighteenth centuries, and in this paper I will – women in particular – were important components in examine some of the litterae indipetae in which they a system of community control. This paper argues that ‘confessed’ their ‘most intimate emotions’. The writers emotions and intimacy challenged the Jewish tried to hide their own desire for exoticism, distance household in the early modern period by destabilising and freedom behind orthodoxy and rhetorical conventional notions of culture and social classes, strategies in order to succeed in competition with negating concepts of essence and purity, and at times thousands of other candidates, who constituted a sort by underscoring the porosity of boundaries. of ‘emotional community’ with its own specific language. Federica Francesconi is Assistant Professor, and the Howard Berger-Ray Neilsen Chair in Judaic Studies, at The College of Elisa Frei is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Idaho. She received her PhD in Jewish History from the Societies, Institutions and Thought at the University of University of Haifa. Her research and publications address Trieste/Udine, conducting research on the litterae indipetae social, religious and cultural aspects of the early modern written by Italian Jesuits who asked to be sent to China history of Jews in Italy, focusing on the multifaceted politics and Japan in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Elisa and dynamics of ghetto life. She is currently completing a spent three months, from September to December 2015, as an book, Invisible Enlighteners: Modenese Jewry from Renaissance associate research student at the Centre for Renaissance and to Emancipation. Her next major project is titled Early Modern Studies at the University of York. She holds a ‘Cosmopolitan Intimacy: Jewish Spaces as Crossroads for Bachelor degree in Archival Studies and Librarianship Multi-Religious Communities in Eighteenth-Century Italy’. (magna cum laude, Trento) and an MA in Italian Philology She has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, (magna cum laude, Verona). Elisa is also a qualified archivist, the University of California and the University of Oxford. having attended the School of Archive-Keeping, Palaeography and Diplomatics (State Archive of Bolzano).

Elisa Frei (The University of Trieste) Umberto Grassi (The University of Sydney) ‘“DIGITUS DEI EST HIC”: THE BEST CANDIDATE TO THE INDIES (SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURY)’ ‘SEXUAL TRANSGRESSIONS, EMOTIONS AND CROSS- CULTURAL INTERACTIONS IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN’ During the sixteenth century closer relations between Europe and the rest of the world led many Jesuit While historiography has long pointed out the northern missionaries to sail for Japan or China and spend European Enlightenment and liberal genesis of the the rest of their lives there. Leaving Europe at a ideals of tolerance, in recent decades many historical young age and experiencing a totally different reality, studies have revealed how common people contributed such as the East-Asian one, affected the Jesuits’ to concrete practices of toleration as significantly as emotional life and led them to have and describe did intellectuals and rulers. Pragmatism, charity and emotions that they would not probably have experienced social ties continued to connect people otherwise had they spent their entire life in Europe dedicating divided by faith. My paper will focus on the ambiguous themselves to very different tasks. Matteo Ricci, the role played by sexuality both in constructing and first Jesuit to enter Beijing (1601), did not conceal in surpassing the boundaries dividing Christians and his works the sensation of unfamiliarity, cultural Muslims. I will pay particular attention to uncertainty and disorientation that he felt during his stay unconventional sexualities. I would like to suggest that in the Ming Empire. sexual behaviours that were prosecuted in both Jesuit missionary publications became very popular in Christianity and Islam provided opportunities Europe and more and more young pupils in the Jesuit for interactions which would otherwise rarely have 19 abstracts

occurred. I will analyse concrete court cases. These hair in detail in regard to emotional styles, captives historical sources contain an intense ‘emotional pointed at their own realms of action, which they lexicon’ that indeed still deserves to be identified, possessed in negotiating and subverting social analysed and understood. belongings despite their servile status: many captives either decided to shave themselves or to let fellow Umberto Grassi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Protestants/Catholics remove the remaining stubble. ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Emotional qualities in described acts of shaving thus (Europe, 1100–1800), based at The University of Sydney. He cultivated familiarities. Finally, enslaved German barber was awarded an MA in Early Modern History in 2002 by the apprentices, who continued their work in Ottoman University of Pisa and completed a PhD in 2011 under the servitude, referred to a highly elaborate and emotional supervision of Professor Adriano Prosperi. In 2012–2013 he was a research fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore of culture of the body in the Ottoman Empire. By doing so Pisa and he is currently part of EMoDiR, an international in handwritten captivity narratives that circulated research network focused on the study of religious dissent amongst the members of the barber guild after the across Europe. He is also a member of the research centre slaves’ return, formerly enslaved barbers presented Politesse (Politics and Theories of Sexuality), based at the slavery as a heavenly means of learning a demanding University of Verona. profession. Body practices thus performed emotions in cultural contact scenes, and their description navigated group cultures. Stefan Hanß (University of Cambridge) Stefan Hanß is a visiting postdoctoral scholar in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, researching ‘Hair, ‘HAIR REMOVAL, CULTURAL CONTACTS AND Social Order and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern EMOTIONS IN GERMAN CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES OF Germany’. He has studied at the Freie Universität Berlin, the THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN’ Università Ca’Foscari Venice and the Warburg Institute London, and has published on Christian-Muslim cultural

contacts in the early modern Mediterranean, covering topics This paper addresses how hair mattered to emotional such as slavery/ captivity, diplomatic and linguistic contacts, cultures of Habsburg-Ottoman encounters in the and the sixteenth-century battle of Lepanto. Stefan has been a sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In particular, I fellow of the German Historical Institutes in Rome and London, examine to the extent to which practices of forced hair the Studienstiftung, Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the DAAD, removal shaped emotional styles of slavery in a cross- and will be a fellow of the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani in cultural perspective. Hundreds of Germans lived in 2017. Ottoman servitude. In captivity narratives, authors described acts of shaving as crucial rites de passage that ‘hurt us much more than the actual captivity itself’. Jacqueline Holler From an Ottoman perspective, shaving aimed at the (University of Northern British Columbia) captives’ humiliation and symbolised new bonds of kinship. German slaves and readers understood such ‘MEMORY AND MELANCHOLY IN THE CORTÉS interpretations due to the cross-cultural identification of CONSPIRACY OF 1566’ hair as a marker of honour. Writing about acts of deprivation and effemination, however, enabled authors Contemplating the rain-sodden, severed head of the to claim personal affiliation with the community of Mexican nobleman-conspirator Alonso de Ávila, Juan captives. The vocabulary of forced shaving, re- Suárez de Peralta described his copious tears at the interpreted as violent bodily abuses in accordance with sight: he had never cried more in his life, he later God’s plan, was linked to biblical stories of martyrdom, wrote, as he contemplated ‘everything now fallen’. suffering and survival. The description of shaving as Suárez’s tears joined a flood of others; if he is to be emotional suffering, therefore, served the ex-slave’s believed, 10,000 assembled in Mexico City’s plaza to confessional self-fashioning. Writing about emotions weep at Ávila’s historic and decisive downfall. This ascribed to hair was thus itself a means of shaping paper takes its lead from Suárez de Peralta’s social relations. By mentioning one’s own close-cropped celebration of sorrow as the natural and noble response to the Cortés Conspiracy of 1566–1567. The 20 abstracts

conspiracy, putatively led by the son of Hernán Cortés, paper is to explore a number of early modern English was itself a melancholy tinged affair, driven by travel accounts of the Levant, Fynes Moryson included, nostalgia for conqueror glory. In the event, the plot was and travellers’ responses to sadness and sorrow crushed decisively and permanently, marking for many during their journeys. The aim is to shed light on the chroniclers then and since the end of the period of acceptable ways of responding to sadness, adversity conqueror ascendancy. In the years that followed, and loss, and to ask how travellers like Moryson, many commentators would examine the history of the William Lithgow and William Biddulph conceptualised plot and the downfall of the ‘flower of New Spain,’ as their personal experiences of sadness during travel Lesley Byrd Simpson famously termed the and tried to manage the dangers of succumbing to conspirators. sadness. It is my aim to expand this exploration to look at the ways in which sadness, home sickness and a This paper assesses how sixteenth- and early sense of disconnection from family and friends were seventeenth-century chroniclers used melancholy to navigated by travellers, and to examine their means of understand and frame memories of the conspiracy and expressing such feelings in accounts that were its aftermath. In both celebrating and denigrating prepared for print and publication. melancholy, chroniclers such as Suárez de Peralta (1537–1598), Gerónimo de Mendieta (1525–1604) and Eva Johanna Holmberg is currently a University Researcher Tomás de Torquemada (1579–1624) reveal and Fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. contestations of melancholy and history in New Spain Her first book, Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination in the late sixteenth century. (Ashgate, 2012), explored English views of contemporary Jews and their bodily and spiritual makeup. She is

completing a book on English encounters with non-Muslim Jacqueline Holler is Associate Professor and Coordinator of peoples of the Levant and is widely interested in the themes Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Northern of cultural encounter, history of emotions and cultural history British Columbia in Prince George, Canada. She is the author of travel. of Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531–

1601 (Columbia University Press, 2001), and of articles and book chapters on early colonial Mexican history. Her most recent book chapters (2014–2015) are on happiness and Claudia Jarzebowski sadness in colonial Mexico and on demonic sex and the (Freie Universität Berlin) unnatural in the early colony. ‘EX OCCIDENTE LUX: THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL CONTACT ON EMOTION AND SEXUALITY IN Eva Johanna Holmberg SEVENTEENTH CENTURY’S GLOBAL HISTORY’ (University of Helsinki) Romantic love has long been considered an invention of ‘SADNESS AND SICKNESS IN EARLY MODERN western modernity. This assumption has been ENGLISH TRAVEL ACCOUNTS: TRAVEL ADVICE, successfully contested by historians of early modern WARNINGS AND SURVIVAL’ Europe. In my paper however I intend to identify spaces and agents of romantic love outside of Europe, following Natalie Zemon Davis’ advice to decentre The dangers and risks of sadness were well known for history. early modern travellers and travel authors. Fynes

Moryson warned the readers of his Itinerary (1617) In so doing my paper reflects on the impact that about the dangers of travelling with loved ones, family transcultural experiences had on concepts and members and good friends. According to Moryson, practices of romantic love. The seventeenth century emotional ties to travel companions could endanger comes to the fore as the period when European the traveller’s life, and also his health. Sadness and institutions such as the East India Companies of melancholia were recognised illnesses in the early England and the Netherlands fundamentally readjusted modern period, theorised and written about in dietary their policies regarding involvements with non- advice literature, health manuals and even ars European men or women. My paper will therefore apodemica and travel advice literature. The aim of this focus on Dutch colonies in Asia.

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of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In a number of Claudia Jarzebowski is an Asssitant Professor of Early articles and book chapters she has discussed the theory and Modern History and the History of Emotions at the Freie methodology of historical anthropology and the history of Universität Berlin. She has recently published a volume emotions in literature. Her other research interests include (edited with Max Safley) on Childhood and Emotion: Across religious drama and hagiographic narratives. Cultures 1450-1800 (Routledge, 2014) and an article on 'Will We Ever Meet Again? Children Traveling the World in the Late

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’ in Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying Manual Kohlert Order, Structuring Disorder, ed. Susan Broomhall, (Routledge, (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) 2015). She is currently conducting research on how cultural contact reshaped patterns of emotional interaction in early ‘LOVE, FEAR AND CONQUEST - OR, HOW EMOTIONS modern history. AND LEGAL NORMS DURING THE SPANISH

EXPANSION IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY LATIN AMERICA

WERE INTER-CONNECTED’ Elke Koch

(Freie Universität Berlin) Discourses about emotions during the cultural

encounters in the New World provoked great ‘NEVER TRUST A TRAVELLING SCHOLAR: controversy in sixteenth-century Spain, granting a deep FIGURATIONS OF TRUST, FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE IN insight into contemporary conceptions of how they LATE MEDIEVAL SHORT NARRATIVES’ were understood, valued and instrumentalised.

Entangled with legal discourse, knowledge about their Trust has in recent years become a focus of interest in specific power as well as their significance for the humanities and also in history. The importance of inclusion and exclusion comes to the fore, revealing a trust as a social emotion or sentiment has been studied picture of a society which conceives emotions as for modern as well as pre-modern societies; however, constitutional but potentially destructive for political the role and relevance of trust for medieval times is culture. Taking this epistemological foundation as a still under debate. In literary studies, the topic has frame I examine encounters during discovery journeys been taken up only rarely. Although the question of a in Latin America that turned rapidly from cultural literary history of emotions has inspired an intense contact into cultural conflict. I analyse the relationship debate on methodological questions among scholars of between submission, governance and emotions during German medieval literature, trust has not yet received the Spanish conquest, drawing upon documents such much attention in this vein. This paper discusses as travel accounts, chronicles, laws, dictionaries and literary perspectives on the emotional dimensions of writings about political and missionary theory. I will trust. It explores how the travelling scholar, a compare the role of love and fear in discourses about character type of Latin as well as vernacular short and practices of conquest in order to trace the narratives, lends itself to playing out different connections and interdependencies between the scenarios of trust under challenge. The travelling theoretical and praxeological fields. Thus, the following scholar is associated with mobility, outside-inside questions arise: How did the Spanish conquistadors relations, good faith and elite or even arcane deal emotionally with the natives, and which legal knowledge. Thus, I will ask whether these literary norms did they follow (or not)? How were emotions figurations yield insights into the conditions and such as love and fear connected to performative dangers of trust as they are imagined in the Late practices and symbolic communication? What role was Middle Ages. attributed to the relationship between war and

mission? Elke Koch is Professor of Medieval German Literature and Language at the Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures, Freie Universität Berlin. From 2008 to 2011, Manual Kohlert is a PhD candidate at the Humboldt- she was Heyne Junior Professor for German Medieval Universität zu Berlin. The working title of his thesis is Studies in Göttingen. She has published a monograph, Trauer ‘Emotions and Voyages of Discovery in Latin America During und Identität (de Gruyter, 2006), about grief and sadness as the Long Sixteenth Century’. In June 2014, he was awarded a performances of identity and belonging in German literature PhD scholarship from the German National Academic

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Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). He literature, which preconditioned the role it played on previously completed a Masters degree in History at the world maps. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with the thesis ‘Conquistadors as Mutineers and Rebels’, examining Dr Anna Kolos has a PhD in literary studies from Adam insurrections during the Spanish conquest of Latin America. Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her main concern is early modern intellectual history including an interest in literature, history of philosophy, religious controversies and the history Anna Kolos of science. Her doctoral dissertation, submitted in 2015, was (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań) devoted to the question of scepticism in seventeenth-century Polish literature and might be considered a pioneering attempt to include the Commonwealth of Poland in the ‘MEDIEVAL EMOTIONS TOWARDS MONSTROUS transnational history of European scepticism. In 2014 she RACES: MAPPAE MUNDI BETWEEN WORD AND IMAGE’ was a visiting researcher at the Warburg Institute in London. In 2013 she published a book on faith and reason in Monstrous races have belonged to the most important seventeenth-century poetry of wit. She holds an MA degree in commonplaces in European cultural imagination since Polish philology and art history. She has attended a number Pliny the Elder’s Historia Naturalis gained major of international conferences in the United Kingdom, Belgium, notoriety. Monster studies investigated the topic in Portugal, Austria and Germany. She has also published on regard to the Middle Ages, while rapidly developing medieval intellectual history, her main interests being the with evident feedback from post-colonial reflections history of curiosity and representations of broadly perceived Otherness. upon the variety of meanings of Otherness. However, some cultural phenomena still remain open to discussion and interpretation. One might consider medieval mappae mundi as such, in their endeavour to Carolyne Larrington conceptualise the whole known world, not in the sense (University of Oxford) of simple graphic representation, but in terms of mapping time and space, theology and philosophy, ‘PLAYING IT COOL: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE OTHER IN along with the broad range of cultural myths. A unified OLD NORSE PROSE GENRES’ vision of the Christian oikumene embraced the pictorial representation of Plinian races which exercised a The medieval literatures of Europe have distinctive strong influence over the widespread interest in emotional regimes. Old Norse-Icelandic saga prose, at mirabillia. The evolution of mappae mundi might be least in the case of the sagas of Icelanders considered a highly interesting source to investigate (Íslendingasögur), are notoriously taciturn in the changing emotions towards strange creatures, which expression of emotion, whether in the viewpoint of the were believed to inhabit far, unknown lands. In my objective and dispassionate narrators or the deadpan paper I would like to focus on the strategies of mapping characters whose inner lives must be inferred from this monstrosity within the context of the coherent reported words and deeds. In the quasi-realistic vision of the known world, which was premised upon genres of Old Norse prose (the Íslendingasögur and the Christian faith and anthropology derived from the Holy contemporary sagas, samtíðasögur), the Other is Scripture. In such supreme, thirteenth-century seldom encountered. In the Vínland sagas, in which examples as the Hereford, Ebstorf or London Psalter Norse colonists in North America come across mappae mundi, one discovers Plinian races inhabiting unfamiliar landscape features, humans and the wild an extremely narrow strip of land indicating the grapes that give the new land its name, surprise and southern corner of the world. I will elaborate on the wonder are managed in ways which conform to the ambiguous distribution of strangers within the general rule of emotional suppression, while still cartographic representations, which encompasses not subtly encoding emotional responses to confrontations only hostility and fear but also the urge to prove the with the Other. This paper examines the surprising importance of Christian missionaries among the encounter in the Vínland sagas in contrast with the infidels. I will do so by tracing back a variety of treatment of surprise in two other saga subgenres: the changing emotions towards monstrosity in medieval translated romance and the legendary saga. Utilising the cognitive categories of die Andere and das Fremde,

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culture-specific features of surprise and wonder are Dr Jette Linaa is Curator of Historical Archaeology at the explored. Moesgaard Museum in Denmark, and an external lecturer in the Department of Maritime Archaeology at the University of Carolyne Larrington is Official Fellow and Tutor in medieval Southern Denmark. Since 2014, she has been the Head of the English literature at St John’s College, University of Oxford. Danish Research Council of the Humanities/FKK project, She has recently published a monograph on sibling relations ‘Urban Diaspora: Diaspora Communities and Materiality in in medieval European literature, Brothers and Sisters in Early Modern Urban Centres c.1400–1650’. Jetta obtained Medieval European Literature (Boydell & Brewer, 2015) and her PhD in medieval archeology in 2000. has translated the Old Norse poetry collection, The Poetic Edda (Oxford University Press, 1999). With Frank Brandsma and Corinne Saunders she co-edited the recent essay Andrew Lynch collection, Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature (D. S. (The University of Western Australia) Brewer, 2015), and is currently working on theoretical bases for the study of emotion across medieval European ‘ON THE OUTER: EMOTION AND EXILE IN MEDIEVAL literatures. HAGIOGRAPHY AND ROMANCE’

In the widespread medieval literary genres of Jette Linaa romance and hagiography, protagonists frequently (Moesgaard Museum) experience periods of exile and homeless wandering. Such exile is notionally aberrant, but also sometimes ‘HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: LONGING AND seen as part of a narrative of personal growth, and as BELONGING SEEN THROUGH THE POSSESSIONS OF part of a text’s modelling of its core values. In both DUTCH IMMIGRANTS IN EARLY MODERN DENMARK’ genres, the affective and emotional experience of exile and wandering is often given a special emphasis. Early modern Denmark hosted a wide variety of This paper will consider the potentially redemptive immigrant groups: German artisans called upon by the function of movement to and through foreign, ‘wild’ king, Scots traders looking for better prospects and and ‘desert’ places in hagiography and romance, and Dutchmen, refugees from the religious wars in the their deployment as areas for the exhibition of virtue Netherlands. Among the latter were a number of and encounter with benign influences. It will also wealthy and well-connected Dutchmen, who formed a consider the potential in the depiction of movement to diaspora community in the city of Elsinore and soon exilic and marginal locations to create alternative or were among the richest and most prosperous citizens resistant emotional understandings of the physical in the town. The possessions of these immigrants are and ideological ‘centres’ depicted in these texts, and known from rich archaeological and historical records, the basis for a new version of ‘home’. In approaching which demonstrate a widespread use of special its topic, the paper will treat exilic locations in religious books, prints and paintings and a range of romance and hagiography as lived spaces largely exotic objects. Traditionally, these objects, and the defined by emotional practice. It will also suggest that people who owned them, have received little attention emotions may in themselves create virtual spaces of in our archaeological research and, where they have, exile or belonging that decentre and dislocate normal they have been primarily seen as traces of trade and ideas of community and exclusion. Romances and exchange in networks. This paper aims to dig deeper saints’ lives are themselves wide travellers over time and propose an alternative interpretation of these and space, changing their emphases as they cross objects as negotiators of emotions of longing and cultural and linguistic borders. To illustrate its belonging among people in exile. The paper takes its enquiry, the paper will compare and contrast starting point in the ongoing Danish Research Council emotional and spatial representations of exile in of the Humanities/FKK project, ‘Urban Diaspora’, but it various versions of the legend of St Mary of Egypt and will include examples from the study of other the romance of Tristan. immigrants in Denmark and its neighbouring countries. Andrew Lynch is Professor in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia, and

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Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Pioffet, it will argue that laughter could demonstrate – Excellence for the History of Emotions, (Europe, and provoke – discord (for instance, when Indigenous 1100–1800). His recent publications include Emotions people mocked colonial authorities). Laughter, as and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature (Palgrave Philip D. Morgan has argued, could indicate where Macmillan, 2015), edited with Stephanie Downes and power lay in colonial encounters. Conversely, it will be Katrina O’Loughlin, and Understanding Emotions in argued, laughter could signify – and create– concord Early Europe (Brepols, 2015), edited with Michael and understanding (through, for example, the shared Champion. He is a contributor to the forthcoming bodily experience of laughing together). Laughter, it Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (Cambridge, will conclude, had numerous meanings. Whilst on the 2016) and The Middle Ages in the Modern World: one hand these were context dependent, on the other Twenty-First-Century Perspectives (Proceedings of the they were constantly being reshaped though colonial British Academy, 2016). encounters.

Robin Macdonald recently completed her PhD at the Robin Macdonald University of York (UK) with a thesis titled ‘Inhabiting New France: Bodies, Environment and the Sacred, c.1632–c.1700’. (The University of Western Australia) In January 2016, she took up the position of Postdoctoral

Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the ‘LAUGHTER AND AFFECT IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY History of Emotions (Europe, 1100–1800), based at The NORTH AMERICAN COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS’ University of Western Australia. Within the Centre, she is working on the ‘Emotions in Early Modern Colonial Since the arrival of Europeans in the ‘New World’, Encounters’ project led by Jacqueline Van Gent. Her histories of encounter have been characterised by postdoctoral research will examine the multifaceted roles of cultural and linguistic misunderstandings. Whilst early laughter in eastern North American colonial encounters. modern European authors often emphasised the comedic aspects of these mishaps (which frequently prompted laughter), very few scholars have examined Una McIlvenna the roles and meanings of laughter, either in early (University of Kent) modern colonial encounters, or in the narratives that describe them. ‘SENT TO VIRGINNY: EARLY MODERN BALLADS ABOUT THE NEW WORLD’ This paper will provide an analysis of laughter and affect in seventeenth-century eastern North America. For many early modern Europeans, ballads and songs It will focus, in particular, on French and English were a primary source of information about news and colonisers and the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples current events. This paper considers how songs they encountered. Through an examination of presented news of the discovery of the ‘New World’, in seventeenth-century travel and mission narratives, particular, of the Americas. How did ballads depict new letters, and objects (‘curiosities’ and gifts), it will ask: and unfamiliar cultures, lands and peoples? What What emotions could laughter signify in the becomes clear from an examination of English ballads laugher? How might bodily processes of laughter is a conspicuous lack of curiosity about indigenous prompt emotional responses? And what can laughter peoples and cultures. Rather, they present an tell us about cultural similarities and differences? overwhelmingly insular vision of a little Britain being replicated in a new place. To judge by early modern Building on William Reddy’s concept of ‘emotives’ (the ballads, the new colonies were a place one was sent to notion that emotions are ‘performative utterances’ as a punishment, or travelled to in order to make one’s that ‘do things to the world’, whilst at the same time fortune, or perished en route to, rather than a place being influenced by it), this paper will argue that one experienced or wondered at. Even when foreigners laughter in colonial encounters could both signify and came to visit Britain, surprisingly little interest is prompt emotional affect. Drawing on the work of shown by ballad-writers in their appearance or scholars such as Gilles Havard and Marie-Christine customs. What kind of emotional responses were these

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songs trying to engender about the New World? Is this order to participate in this political project, and shows lack of information about indigenous lands and people how the story of Jonah, as told in Patience, was a feature of songs in other European languages? How designed specifically to serve Edward’s colonial did the French, Spanish and Portuguese represent ambitions. How? By teaching its reader, Lionel, to their new colonies in song? How do ballads compare ‘steer his heart’, as the poem says: to submit to the with prose accounts of the New World? And why do commands of his lord, and to bring an emotional tool – they provide so little concrete information about these patience, here defined as the willingness to suffer – to exotic new discoveries? a political mission.

Una McIlvenna is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the Sarah McNamer is a specialist in Middle English literature, University of Kent. She is the author of Scandal and Reputation especially how it intersects with the history of emotions. Her at the Court of Catherine de Medici (Routledge, 2016). Her book, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval current research looks at the early modern tradition of Compassion (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) was singing the news, using a comparative approach across awarded the Book of the Year prize by the Conference on multiple European languages. Her research into the Christianity and Literature. Her most recent article is ‘The significance of melodies in execution ballads was published Literariness of Literature and the History of Emotion’, PMLA recently in Past & Present, and she has articles on news- 130.5 (2015): 1433–52. songs about to be published in Huntington Library Quarterly and Media History, as well as in edited volumes with Palgrave and Ashgate. Sarah Meacham

(Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond)

Sarah McNamer ‘“THE AFFABLE CHEERFULNESS OF A GENTLEMAN”: (Georgetown University) STATUS AND EMOTIONS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY

AMERICA’ ‘PATIENCE AND THE CONQUEST OF MEDIEVAL

IRELAND’ ‘Hon’d Sir’, wrote Virginian Sally Cary Fairfax to her

father in England in 1772, ‘give my love to my brother. I Patience is not typically an emotion associated with the hope he will acquire the polite assurance and affable drive toward empire in the premodern period. Yet this cheerfulness of a gentleman’. Like many elite paper makes the case for its centrality as a political American colonists in the latter half of the eighteenth tool at a particular historical moment, the early 1360s, century, Fairfax insisted that gentility required the during Edward III’s efforts to secure his hold on constant performance of cheerfulness. Yet before the Ireland. It does so through a historicist analysis of the mid-eighteenth century, there was little expectation of story of Jonah and the whale, as told in the alliterative the self-fashioning of emotion (or, in their lexicon, verse narrative, Patience, one of the works attributed to ‘passion’) among the residents of the mainline British the brilliant anonymous poet who composed Sir Gawain colonies. After mid-century, however, the expectation and the Green Knight and Pearl. that the members of the upper-sort should generate an

unrelenting vivacity, whether they were observed or This poem has never been subjected to serious not, exploded. historicist analysis. Here, I root it in history, presenting evidence that it was composed specifically for Prince This paper, part of a larger project on what early Lionel, Duke of Clarence, whom Edward III appointed Americans felt, argues that cheerfulness became a Viceroy of Ireland in 1359. Edward’s own ambitions to critical component of gentility as a result of American create a glorious new Plantagenet empire are well colonists reading and interpreting forms of literature known. Less fully recognised is the reluctance and that were new to them, especially English novels and resistance he encountered in stirring up enthusiasm etiquette books. Elites also adopted cheerfulness as for the subjugation of Ireland. This paper presents part of their identity because lower-sort colonists were evidence of such resistance from historical documents, adopting melancholy and dour affects as part of their argues that Lionel was among those who resisted the own emotional performance.

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of European global expansion by assessing two European missionaries brought new religions and eighteenth-century British media events in which revivals to the American colonies starting in the 1730s. collective emotionalites were articulated in view of The rapidly growing number of Methodists and ongoing processes of immigration and intercultural Baptists, often called ‘New Lights’, embraced the reflection: 1) the Tory outcry surrounding the appearance of dejection. These dissenters were passing of the Jewish Naturalisation Act (the so- frequently described by elites as ‘the most melancholy called ‘Jew Bill’) of 1753; and 2) the aftermath of people’. For example, Dr Alexander Hamilton observed eccentric London Methodist chaplain Martin Madan’s that a ferry operator ‘had a particular down hanging advocacy of the legalisation of polygamy in 1780–1781. look which made me suspect he was one of our New Both events were characterised by a besieged, Light bigots’. Elites generally believed, in contrast, that insecure tenor, with Britain’s status as a Christian appearing melancholic was not only inconsiderate and community portrayed as being endangered by the unseemly, but also ungodly. Planter Landon Carter, for spectres of non-Christian citizens and the introduction instance, recorded in 1771 that although he faced many of marriage regulations thought to belong to a long- losses, he must ‘without murmuring’ – that is, hated enemy to the East. protesting or feeling melancholic – ‘become worthy of [God’s] future blessings’. As much as these fears reflected popular xenophobia, both events deserve further attention as New literatures, religions, missionaries, Europeans, sites where contemporary actors fashioned and Africans and American colonists met in the American conceptualised collective emotional identities in colonies during the latter half of the eighteenth response to deepening appraisals of emergent global century. One result was the rise of competing, even realities. The deployment and re-appropriation of the dueling, emotional communities. ideas of leading Enlightenment thinkers (such as Montesquieu and Hume) in these debates will be Sarah Hand Meacham is an Associate Professor of History at explored, contributing to ongoing reassessments of the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She contentious concept of the ‘public sphere’ and the is the author of Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Technology, place of mediation in the new intellectual and and Gender in the Early Chesapeake (Johns Hopkins University cultural history of the Enlightenment (Melton, Press, 2009), as well as ‘Pets, Status, and Slavery in the Late- Sebastiani, La Vopa). Additionally, the fascinating Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake,’ Journal of Southern History 77.3 (2011): 521–54. She also has peer-reviewed publications corpus constituted by the events – ranging from in: Early American Studies; The Virginia Magazine of History and political pamphlets and public debates to theatre Biography; Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives, ed. D. productions and satirical poetry – afford an ideal Myers and M. Perreault (Lexington Books, 2006); The Curious opportunity for a methodological reflection upon the Mister Catesby: A ‘Truly Ingenious’ Naturalist Explores New use of media events as sources for studying the Worlds, ed. D. Elliot and E. Nelson, (University of Georgia imbrication of public emotionality within ‘the global Press, 2015); and Virginia Women: Their Lives, Their Times, ed. eighteenth century’ (Nussbaum, Festa, Carey). C. A Kierner and S. G. Treadway (University of Georgia Press, 2015). She is working on a book project titled ‘What Early Nicholas B. Miller is an Early Career Fellow at the Americans Felt’, from which her conference paper is drawn. Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. His first book, John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment: Family Life and World History will be published in March 2017. Miller Nicholas B. Miller defended his dissertation at the University of Potsdam in (University of Göttingen) 2014, where he was an ESR (PhD fellow) in the Marie Curie ITN ‘Englobe: Enlightenment and Global History’. He has held ‘EMOTIONAL GEOPOLITICS AND THE ENLIGHTENED postdoctoral positions at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and at the University of Erfurt’s Gotha Research PUBLIC SPHERE: THE ANXIOUS POLEMICS OF Centre. His future work will tackle the political thought and NATURALISATION AND POLYGAMY IN EIGHTEENTH- comparative praxis of Western advisers to non-European CENTURY BRITAIN’ polities during the nineteenth century.

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Amir Minsky communication, and the ways by which they may have (New York University Abu Dhabi and Max Planck- catalysed the formation of a modern German political Institute for Human Development) subjectivity.

‘PORTABLE EMOTIONOLOGIES: DIDACTIC EMOTIONS Amir Minsky specialises in modern European intellectual AND THE FRANCO-GERMAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE, history with a focus on German and French thought of the c.1770–1800’ eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His research interests include the global impact of the French Revolution

and the Franco-German exchange during the Revolutionary This paper explores the interplay between French and Era (c.1750–1850); the transnational history of emotions in German emotional standards in the German popular eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe; and the press of the last third of the eighteenth century, as a intersections of aesthetics, nationalism and violence in facet of the wider Franco-German cultural exchange of German political culture. Minsky has published work on that period. Whereas the pre-1789 French clandestine German travelogues of post-revolutionary France, the French press was mainly invested in undermining the quasi- revolutionary and Napoleonic administration in the sacral status of the French monarchy, and the Rhineland, and the sentimentalised concept of liberty in the political philosophy of the German Enlightenment. He is revolutionary era one devoted itself to the apotheosis of currently working on a book-length project titled ‘The Rise the Rights of Man, both nevertheless grappled with the and Fall of Politicised Sentimentalism in the German Public tensions between modernisation and restoration at the Sphere, 1780–1848’. core of the French definition of the public sphere. Their

German counterpart, in contrast, posited the domestic sphere as a base of sanctified German identity that Jane-Heloise Nancarrow centered on notions of virtue, family values and civic (The University of Western Australia) duty – the hallmarks of the German bourgeoisie’s nascent cultural ethos – which, by some contemporary ‘BISHOP WULFSTAN'S WAILING: NEGOTIATING THE readings, featured as the preferred model for NORMAN CONQUEST THROUGH IMPERIAL ANGLO- restructuring the German social and political order. If ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE’ the French ‘family romance’ (following Lynn Hunt) had shifted political power from the patriarchal (royal) The late-Saxon Bishop Wulfstan was ‘unable to keep family to a (civic) fraternity, in the German case the back his tears’ on witnessing the destruction of St notion of the sentimental bourgeois family was Oswald’s at Worcester to make way for a new expanded by proxy to the shared spirit (Gemeinsinn) of Romanesque church. The psychological impact of emotional community. monumental Norman architecture within local English

landscapes after 1066 cannot be over-emphasised, Dissemination of such emotionologies, however, however, the historical context to Wulfstan’s anguish involved an extended debate in the German popular reveals a more nuanced picture of continental contact press, among other venues, over several French and exchange. Archaeological evidence confirms that cultural ‘artifacts’, characteristic of Francophone the older church, including its re-used Roman remains, globalisation: French civilité and its affective was incorporated into the material fabric of Norman St mannerisms beyond court society, the waxing and Oswald’s by 1089. Moreover, documentary sources waning enthusiasm for French revolutionary ideology reveal that Wulfstan had commissioned the new and the prospects of its transplantation to German soil, building himself. the excessive influence of French mode on notions of art and style, women’s education or the patriarchal Using conflicting contemporary accounts in the order in the German states, and the dual incitement of chronicles of William of Malmesbury and Goscelin de German patriotic feelings and anti-French sentiment in St Bertin, I interrogate Wulfstan’s ‘grief’ to expose the the context of the Revolutionary Wars. This paper multivalent pressures upon Saxon and Norman elites seeks to identify the specific mechanisms of to promote memorial continuity in the Romanesque acculturation and dissemination of emotional architecture of the Norman Conquest. This rare, early standards as novel forms of inter- and intra- cultural account of emotional distress as a response to socio- 28 abstracts

cultural upheaval heralded the realistic writing of the madness was understood in Bourbon Mexico, how it twelfth-century renaissance; yet this paper also was labelled, and the consequences of this process for challenges the idea of overt stylistic colonisation as a the governance of missionaries and society more ‘savage obliteration of the Saxon material past’. broadly. Aesthetic and technological ties with Saxon and Roman Particular attention is paid to the spatial and remains were instead used to negotiate Conquest environmental factors that were central to power brokering. These artefacts functioned as understandings of emotional and mental imbalance in cultural touchstones that acknowledged insular social Bourbon Mexico. The sources discussed are used to memories as much as new Norman values. This paper ask the following questions: how did historical actors explores emotive responses to the arrival of the draw on humoural models of the mind and body in Normans, and shows how encounters with the Saxon order to conceptualise the illness and spiritual and classical material past transitioned into large- isolation experienced by some missionaries? In what scale architectural empire building in Norman ways did missionaries adapt longstanding religious and churches, monasteries and castles. medical traditions to the new circumstances of their work? And, how were mental and emotional distress Jane-Heloise Nancarrow is an interdisciplinary researcher perceived in spaces of cultural contact and exchange? specialising in medieval archaeology and literature. Her These questions address developments in religious and forthcoming monograph, Re-Used Ruins: The Roman Past in scientific knowledge in this period and their Norman England, will be published by York Medieval Press in implications for communal understandings of 2016. Jane-Heloise’s current research addresses three- individual behaviour. This paper is based on a wider dimensional digital modelling and visualisation in cultural heritage, as well as ‘Normanitas’ in the Apulian architecture project that uses the concept of madness to explore of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. She completed her what it was to be human in Bourbon Mexico. doctorate in medieval studies at the University of York in 2014, and holds a Masters degree in medieval studies from Rebecca Noble is a PhD candidate in the Centre for the The University of Western Australia. History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. Her research addresses how understandings of madness contribute to constructions of selfhood and governance. She has undertaken research in Mexico and the USA and is Rebecca Noble currently developing a public engagement project on mental (University of Warwick) health with university hospitals in Coventry and Warwickshire. She also volunteers for Mind, a UK-based ‘MADNESS, EMOTIONAL REGIMES AND GOVERNANCE mental health charity. IN THE BOURBON MEXICAN MISSIONS’

Historical analysis of cases of ‘mad’ missionaries in Lisa O’Connell eighteenth-century Mexico provides an opportunity to (The University of Queensland) consider understandings and expressions of emotions that are often hidden in the historical record. Fear, ‘SENSIBLE DISTANCES: THE COLONIAL sadness, anger and other kinds of mental distress can PROJECTIONS OF THERESE HUBER’ be found in the personal and bureaucratic correspondence of missionaries and other religious Therese Huber’s Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu- and medical authorities regarding the mental states of Holland [Adventures on a Journey to New Holland], a ‘mad’ missionaries. narrative about revolutionary malaise, flight and

redemption, was the first novel set in the Australian This paper examines correspondence found in penal colony. Serialised in the German women’s missionary records in order to place discourses on magazine, Flora (1793–1794), not long after Botany Bay madness in their religious and medical context. It was founded, it is a remarkable product of German explores the importance of the senses in individual and romanticism. Huber’s novel ventriloquised the voice of communal perceptions of ‘mad’ individuals. It also her estranged husband, German naturalist, considers the importance of specific historically revolutionary and early Pacific voyager, Georg Forster, situated emotional regimes for understanding how 29 abstracts

in order to imagine his return journey to colonial cordiality, to meet the glance of her eyes, Australia. It used the language of sentimental kissed me very affectionately. progressivism to figure the redemptive power of love, marriage and family in the settler colony. Huber Wollstonecraft’s account of the exchange of looks, herself never visited Australia, and the distance gestures and affections in the absence of a shared between her life and this work recalls a tradition for language speaks eloquently to the question of how which terra australis was a place of fabulous inversion. these cross-cultural emotional attachments were My paper explores how Botany Bay was available to forged, practiced or displayed. Are these affective European post-revolutionary sentimentalism, such as bonds made within, across or despite culture? in Huber’s imagining. I will argue that her sentimentalism fashioned a post-revolutionary To consider some of these issues, this paper focuses ideology with particular appeal to new feminised on the friendship of Russian Ekaterina Dashkova and commercial readerships – one centred on love and Anglo-Irish women Martha and Katherine Wilmot. affect in immigrant communities rather than on Contemporaries of Wollstonecraft, these friends cosmopolitan politics. effectively built a shared language of affection across significant cultural, social and linguistic boundaries. In Lisa O’Connell lectures in English at The University of their exchange and preservation of letters, journals Queensland. She has published essays on the eighteenth- and commonplace books – I will argue – we might century novel, libertinism, sentimentalism, church-state begin to understand emotional bonds as literary and politics and the marriage plot. She is currently working on an material practices, and to appreciate the eighteenth- Australian Research Council-funded project on secularisation century European ‘republic of letters’ not (or not only) and British Literature, 1600–1800. as a series of intellectual and scientific transactions,

but a network of affective attachments.

Katrina O’Loughlin Katrina O’Loughlin is an Australian Research Council Early (The University of Western Australia) Career Researcher, and formerly a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of ‘THE “FEELING OF FRIENDSHIP”: EMOTIONAL AND Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe, 1100–1800). LITERARY BONDS ACROSS EUROPE IN THE Her research interests are in English literature, particularly EIGHTEENTH CENTURY’ eighteenth-century writing, travel writing, cultural history, gender and cultural exchange. She is the co-editor, with We are perhaps accustomed to thinking about the early colleagues, of Shakespeare and Emotions: Inheritances, Enactments, Legacies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and modern period in terms of its voyages of exploration Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature (Palgrave and masculinised networks of intellectual exchange. Macmillan, 2015), and her monograph Women’s Travel Writing But women too experienced greater mobility in this of the Eighteenth Century: ‘The Paper Globe’ is forthcoming period, making connections across Europe and the with Cambridge University Press. New World. These expanded global encounters demanded a changed vocabulary: while hospitality and courtesy remained key values, increased proximity and Christina Petterson different forms of intimacy required new languages for (University of Newcastle) those friendships and attachments that developed between strangers. Travelling alone in Scandinavia in ‘BODIES IN HEATHEN PLACES: REGULATING the 1790s, Mary Wollstonecraft describes a moving MARRIAGE WITHOUT A STATE’ encounter with a group of women: This paper is jointly presented with Katherine Faull The solitariness of my situation, which they (Bucknell University). Refer to entry for Katherine Faull thought terrible, interested them very much for abstract. in my favour. They gathered round me – sung to me – and one of the prettiest, to Christina Petterson holds a Masters in Theology from whom I gave my hand, with some degree of Copenhagen University and a PhD in Cultural Studies from 30 abstracts

Macquarie University (2011). She is a research associate in regulation of early modern emotion. She has published a the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the chapter entitled ‘Locus Amoenus or Locus Violens? University of Newcastle, in the ARC-funded project ‘Sacred Shakespearean Emotions Through an Ovidian Model’ in Economy’. She is the author of The Missionary, the Catechist Shakespeare and Emotions, edited by R. S. White, M. Houlahan and the Hunter: Foucault, Protestantism and Colonialism (Brill, and K. O’Loughlin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). 2014) and has published several articles on the Moravian Brethren in Herrnhut.

Eleonora Rai

(The University of Western Australia) Bríd Phillips

(The University of Western Australia) ‘THE EMOTIONS OF CONVERSION: VISUAL

TECHNIQUES AND PREACHING IN ‘“DEVILS WILL THE BLACKEST SINS PUT ON”: THE PAOLO SEGNERI SENIOR’S MISSIONS (1655–1694)’ EMOTIONAL REGISTER OF COLOUR’

In the second half of the seventeenth century, Jesuit Richard Blunt argues that ‘until the 1580s, the black missionary Paolo Segneri Senior contributed to the re- character was simply a visual representation of evil.’ In evangelisation of the Italian Peninsula and promoted a Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus’s (c.1590) wicked visual theatrical method that proved fruitful. Also, his Moor Aaron declares he ‘will have his soul black like touching preaching (focusing on death, sin and the his face’ (3.1.204). Loved only by Tamora, herself an Passion of Christ) was powerful and moved the public outsider, Aaron is ruled by Saturn and prone to to an internal conversion. The missions, which played a melancholy. However, events such as the arrival of the substantial role in the Catholic reform and renewal in Moorish Ambassador to Elizabeth I’s court in 1600 the early modern age, emerged as a specific pastoral provided a new model of the Moor as a powerful strategy: missionaries could provide spiritual individual, challenging previous orthodoxies and assistance and moral control. The missions answered precipitating rapid changes in the cultural perception to the necessity of improving the knowledge of and representation of colour. The eponymous Moor in catechism and bolstering people’s emotional Othello (c.1603) thus strikes a very different chord. attachment towards Catholicism and the Roman Desdemona sees ‘Othello’s visage in his mind’ Church. The method used by Segneri Senior was based (1.3.251), his blackness is fearful but also desirable. on visual objects connected to the Passion of Christ Even Iago talks about being bound to love Othello. After and techniques related to the religio carnalis, meaning Desdemona’s murder, however, Emilia, cries, ‘O, the the experience of living faith and religion through more angel she, and you the blacker devil!’ (5.2.140), human senses. Segneri’s preaching for Lent reflecting earlier attitudes to colour. Blackness as a (Quaresimale) represents the highest expression of his register of evil and emotional negativity is both ability to move people towards Catholic faith through questioned and compromised. words. Segneri’s missions exhibit the remarkable value

of visual objects and preaching from the emotional Drawing on the model of habitus proposed by Pierre point of view. Bourdieu and elaborated by Monique Scheer, this paper explores shifts in the coding of blackness as In this paper I will present the missionary method Other in Shakespeare’s drama. Using colour as an developed by Paolo Segneri Senior in the Italian emotional register, I argue that colour references missions. I will pay particular attention to the crucial provide useful indicators on how cross-cultural role played by visual techniques and Lenten preaching exchanges were negotiated emotionally and socially in communicating religious knowledge, moving within the habitus. people’s feelings and achieving religious commitment.

Bríd Phillips is a doctoral candidate at The University of Western Australia and the Australian Research Council Eleonora Rai is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe, research focuses on colour as a particular perceptual and 1100–1800), based at The University of Western Australia. aesthetic lens and tool for the presentation, elicitation and Eleonora’s research focuses on aspects of the history of the 31 abstracts

Roman Church and Christianity from the early modern period save their souls until, and perhaps especially in, the to the present day. She is particularly interested in early last moment. The meanings given to the deaths of the modern and contemporary Italian religious history and the locals (both rulers and ordinary folk) shed light on how history of the Society of Jesus. She is currently investigating the Jesuits pictured themselves as missionaries and the emotions of the Suppression of the Society of Jesus, the the success of their apostolic work. Lastly, I consider in role of emotions and visual preaching techniques in the missions of the Jesuit Paolo Segneri Senior and the what ways these descriptions of death and emotions Franciscan Leonardo of Porto Maurizio in early modern Italy were gendered. (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), and the Jesuit Italian litterae indipetae. Eleonora obtained her PhD in Historical Päivi Räisänen-Schröder was awarded her PhD in Medieval Studies in March 2014 (cotutelle program between the and Early Modern History by the University of Göttingen. She University of Milan and the École pratique des hautes is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Helsinki études in Paris), with a thesis on the Flemish Jesuit in the Department for Church History. She is the author of theologian Leonard Lessius (1554–1623). Ketzer im Dorf: Visitationsverfahren, Täuferbekämpfung und She is the author of La Santa Parole: Le Veggenti di Pusiano e I lokale Handlungsmuster im frühneuzeitlichen Württemberg Loro Seguaci (The Prophetesses of Pusiano and Their Followers) (uvk, 2011) and ‘Books, Dress and Emotions in the Memoirs (Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2013) and has forthcoming of the Clergyman Johan Frosterus (1720–1809)’, The articles appearing in Baroque Studies and Jesuit Studies. Scandinavian Journal of History (forthcoming, 2016). Her current research project, funded by the Academy of Finland, is titled ‘Medical Knowledge, Salvation and Self-Legitimation in Early Modern Jesuit Narratives of Healing’. Päivi Räisänen-Schröder

(University of Helsinki)

Sif Rikhardsdottir ‘SUFFERING MISSIONARIES, JOYFUL MARTYRS AND (University of Iceland) DEATH-BED CONVERSIONS: DEATH AND EMOTIONS

IN SEVENTEENTH- AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH- ‘PITY, EMOTIVE INTERIORITY AND THE ISLAMIC CENTURY JESUIT JOURNALS’ OTHER IN CHANSON DE ROLAND AND KARLAMAGNÚS

SAGA’ This paper explores the meanings given by early modern Jesuit missionaries to emotions in the context This paper addresses the way in which emotive of death and dying. Given the dangers of the missionary signifying patterns in the French Chanson de Roland are work and the eagerness of many Jesuits to become adapted, evoked and transformed in the Norse martyrs, death is a central theme of the missionaries’ compilation Karlamagnús Saga (The Saga of Charles the experiences and the written form they gave to them. Great). Karlamagnús Saga is a cyclical collection Here, the focus is on large-scale Jesuit publication composed from chansons de geste and other materials projects such as the early eighteenth-century journals, featuring the life story of Charlemagne. The story of Lettres édifiantes & curieuses, or the German-language Roland, which is based on a lost exemplar close to the Der Neue Welt-Bott. Through select case studies from Oxford manuscript of Chanson de Roland, figures as one the latter corpus, I firstly ask what meanings the of the branches of the larger compilation. This paper missionaries gave to both the martyr and natural will focus on the way in which the Norse version shifts deaths of fellow Jesuits. I suggest that the discussion the conception of the Islamic Other that underlies the of martyrdom allowed the missionaries to discuss a religious ethos of the earlier chanson de geste to broad variety of emotions from the prospect of highlight different cultural concerns, thereby heavenly joy to the material, emotional and practical destabilising the emotive subtext that is fundamental to hardships of their voyages and daily life in the the conception of Christian identity in the French epic missions. Secondly, I compare these findings to the tradition. The notion of pity and its staging are descriptions of indigenous people’s deaths to see what furthermore intrinsically interlinked with strategies of emotions the missionaries observed in this context and empathetic engagement and disassociation that are at how they interpreted them. Considering the role of the core of the ideological structures of the Chanson de death-bed conversions, terminally ill locals were of Roland and dictate its reception and emotive impact special importance to the missionaries, who strove to

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throughout history. Ultimately, the paper will consider practices were a source of anxiety for the colonial how emotive interiority is performed in both traditions classes, and fears of acculturation and gaelicisation and what the modifications in the representation of were persistent. This led commentators such as Islam may mean in terms of the aesthetic and Edmund Spenser to warn against using Irish wet emotional ideologies of the presumed audiences of the nurses for fear of cultural contamination, a position chansons de geste and the later Norse Vita Karoli Magni. which will be explored in detail, as it had a far-reaching legacy for infant feeding practices in Ireland. Sif Rikhardsdottir is Associate Professor and former Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. She is the In 2008 Madeline Shanahan was awarded an Ad Astra author of Medieval Translations and Cultural Discourse: The Research Scholarship with the John Hume Institute for Movement of Texts in England, France and Scandinavia (Boydell Global Irish Studies to undertake her PhD at University & Brewer, 2012) and a forthcoming edition of the Middle College Dublin. Her thesis examined the culture of recipe English romance Partonope of Blois, co-edited with David writing in early modern Ireland, and has been published as a Lawton. She is currently working on a monograph tentatively monograph with Lexington books, entitled Recipe Manuscripts titled Voicing Emotion in Medieval Literature, as well as a co- as Archaeological Objects: Food and Text in the Early Modern edited volume on Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds World (2014). She has recently been awarded an Irish Studies with Helen Fulton. Fellowship at The University of Melbourne, where she will investigate infant feeding in Ireland. Madeline is an Honorary Associate with La Trobe University and an Associate Madeline Shanahan Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History (La Trobe University) of Emotions (Europe, 1100–1800).

‘“THEIR NURSES WHOM THEY LOVE SO WELL”: INFANT FEEDING AND COLONIAL DISCOURSE IN Charlotte Colding Smith EARLY MODERN IRELAND’ (German Maritime Museum)

This paper will discuss the emotionally and politically ‘FEAR AND FASCINATION IN LIBRARIES: BOOKS charged discourse surrounding infant feeding in early DESCRIBING AND DEPICTING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE modern Ireland. It will outline the nature of infant IN EARLY LIBRARIES AND KUNSTKAMMER feeding practices from the mid-sixteenth to the COLLECTIONS’ eighteenth century, but will focus on how they became a source of contention, as the Plantations brought new This paper considers emotions behind library waves of colonists from Britain into the country and collections containing books depicting, describing and cultures came into conflict with one another. As was originating from the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth the case elsewhere in Europe, emotions, religiosity and and seventeenth centuries, together with associated morality were central to early modern kunstkammer traditions, as forms of contact and conceptualisations of breastfeeding in Ireland. In this cultural transfer. In doing so, it concentrates on a understanding, an immoderate temper, uncontrolled group of Hapsburg collections, in comparison with emotions, immorality, sexual immodesty and even similar ones in Copenhagen, Dresden, Munich and religious and spiritual beliefs were all factors that Wolfenbüttel. Fear of the Ottoman army and Islamic could potentially be conveyed through breast milk to a religion gave impetus to many collections and child. The bond between a wet nurse and child was humanist catalogues of books about the Ottoman believed to be critically important not just to a child’s Empire, specifically in Hugo Blotius’ First Catalogue of physical health, but also to their emotional and the Court Library in Vienna (Codex 13605). Many books spiritual wellbeing, and to their sense of identity and and military maps in these collections also describe allegiance. This meant that in the context of Plantation and depict fortresses, naval bases and previous Ireland, the selection of a safe wet nurse was military conquests of the Ottoman armies in order to paramount, and fears surrounding infant feeding were combat and defeat them. Corresponding kunstkammers intensified. As with other aspects of Irish culture, such and military handbooks focused on weapons and as language, religion, food and dress, infant care military regalia, with several collections, including Tirol and Dresden, having specific Türkenkammers. Fear 33 abstracts

also manifested itself through perceived dangers of into domestic traditions of political and religious public Islam, expressed in hundreds of manuscripts relating processions in early modern Europe. Reports of the to Islam and the Koran. This mirrored the transfer of juggernaut by European travellers to India were associated religious objects to European collections initially fed through Mediterranean and mostly Catholic where they became items of curiosity. Fascination is Europe, but they seem to have gained particular viewed through many costume albums and travel polemical traction in northern and sometimes manuscripts, detailing early ethnographic approaches Protestant European contexts. In important to the culture and court of the Ottoman Empire and its comparative ways, these sources reflect the people, also present in these collections. How can performative roles of bodies, images and objects in these collections provide information to combat fear of European sacred spaces and processions, such as a militant enemy culture and theologically defined those for Corpus Christi and by flagellants. The ‘infidel Muslims’, yet be reconciled with the fascination juggernaut almost certainly also recalled for about a far-away society within expanding ideas of Europeans the frenzied Bacchic processions that they cultural transfer? understood as having quite literally originated in India. Through a comparative analysis, this paper aims to Charlotte Colding Smith completed her undergraduate and unpack some of the emotional dynamics of Indian PhD studies at The University of Melbourne with Charles Zika juggernaut processions viewed through the prism of as her supervisor. Until recently she was a postdoctoral early modern northern European religious anxieties. research fellow and lecturer at the University of Mannheim.

She is currently an International Museums Fellow at the Jennifer Spinks is Lecturer in Early Modern History at German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven. She has held multiple fellowships including at the University of Heidelberg, The University of Manchester, and was previously an the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, the Anton Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig, the University of Vienna and The University of Melbourne. Her research is the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British particularly concerned with religious polemic and print Museum, London. She is the author of the monograph, culture in early modern northern Europe. Her Images of Islam, 1453–1600: Turks in Germany and Central publications include Monstrous Births and Visual Culture Europe, (Pickering and Chatto, 2014). in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Pickering and Chatto, 2009) and The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death and Disaster (National Gallery of Victoria, 2012), co-edited Jenny Spinks with Cathy Leahy and Charles Zika and accompanying a (The University of Manchester) collaboratively-curated exhibition. In mid-2015 she was an Early Career International Research Fellow at the ‘RIDING THE JUGGERNAUT: EMBODIED EMOTIONS, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for INDIAN RITUAL PROCESSIONS AND EARLY MODERN the History of Emotions (Europe, 1100–1800). NORTHERN EUROPEAN VISUAL CULTURE’

This paper will examine northern European depictions Johannes Traulsen of the Indian juggernaut, a form of religious procession (Freie Universität Berlin) notorious for apocryphally crushing of the bodies of Hindu worshippers under wagons bearing statues of ‘A RIVER OF LOVE: TIME AND SPACE IN MIDDLE HIGH gods. Key sources include textual and visual GERMAN MONASTIC LITERATURE’ (mis)representations by André Thévet, Sebastian Münster, Jan Huygen van Linschoten and Maarten van Christian religious literature often provides its own Heemskerck. Visual and textual European conceptions of temporality. Time appears not only as a representations like these sought to trigger sensory linear process but is also affected by trans-historical and emotional responses to the ‘otherness’ of the connections between significant events in the history of depicted bodies and rituals. They reveal an anxious salvation. The presentation of visions is one way of fascination with the performance of religious ecstasy in transcending linear time and including future events deeply foreign contexts. But they also recognisably tap like the Last Judgment in the present of the narration.

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But also more complex forms of telling the its function and the choice of subject matter for the transcendence of time can be found in medieval walls reflect an early Christian theological concept literature. originating in the eastern Mediterranean. Based on literary accounts of eremitical life in the desert, early The Middle German Väterbuch links the supra- medieval Greek monastic communities began to temporality of salvation to the emotion of minne, or perform burials in or near a porch, usually at the west love. The hagiographical text originates in a lay order end of a cult building. The geographical proximity of and presents minne as a key concept for monastic life: Greek and Latin monasteries in south Italy enabled this minne provides the cohesion of the members of the liturgical practice then to be transmitted to Latin order and the monks are united with Christ and the orders, who in turn handed it down to the Mendicants saints by sharing the feeling of minne. Minne also holds and lay fraternities. These communities renewed and together the Trinity and the sacrifice of Christ. The fervently propagated the eremitical lifestyle, not least Väterbuch describes minne as a river which flows from by commissioning the majority of Thebaid paintings. Paradise through Hell and into the hearts of men. Hence, the iconographic scene of the Dormition of a Minne is also the reward for the redeemed on Hermit, shown at the porch of a cult building, Judgment Day. Time and space are merged in the demonstrates at once a contemporary ritual practice picture of the flowing river, which transgresses linear and its eastern origin. It is not surprising, therefore, thinking of time. I will concentrate on these literary that in this scene late medieval monks unfailingly presentations of minne and time in the medieval text mingle with the early Christian anchorites. I maintain but also include a short introduction to the theological that the porch at Monte Oliveto was a spatial backdrop understanding of love in my presentation. for the staging of this concept. During a funeral at the porch, the Olivetans had a liminal experience whereby Johannes Traulsen is a Research Associate at the Institute they became one with the desert fathers who, as life- for German and Dutch Philology, Freie Universität Berlin. He sized icons, surrounded them, implying that God had finished his doctoral thesis on a medieval German translation conferred on them the same charisma with which he of the Latin tales of the desert fathers (the Väterbuch) in 2015. had endowed the eastern desert saints. His current research interests include vernacular hagiography and the German versions of the chansons de Christine Ungruh was awarded a PhD in art history by the geste. University of Göttingen in 2009, for her thesis on the twelfth- century floor mosaic of the Cathedral of Otranto in southern Italy. In 2011, she became a Research Fellow with research Christine Ungruh unit 1703, ‘Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art’, (Freie Universität Berlin) funded by the German Research Council and based at Freie Universität Berlin. Her work within the research project, ‘The ‘DE PROFUNDIS. HOW THE EARLY CHRISTIAN DESERT Charisma of the Foreign: The Aesthetics of Religious Exchange in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World’, is titled ‘Saints FATHERS AFFECTED THE OLIVETANS AND THEIR from Abroad: Thebaid Cycles in Late Medieval Italy’. Among FUNERARY RITES AT MONTE OLIVETO MAGGIORE IN other projects, she has co-organised workshops dealing with THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES’ the significance of the Pauline doctrine of charismata, and the interaction of architectural space, performance and art as Around 1450, the Benedictine monks of Monte Oliveto reflected in the devotion to the early Christian desert saints Maggiore commissioned a Thebaid cycle for the porch and its effect on late medieval Thebaid paintings. of their church, consisting of a narrative depiction of the Life of the Fathers in the desert near Thebes and a series of life-size anchorites covering the surrounding walls. At the time the porch served as liturgical space for funeral rites. Accordingly, and because it provided access to the burial chambers directly underneath, it was called De profundis.

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Jacqueline Van Gent 2011); with S. Young, ‘Emotions and Conversion’, a special (The University of Western Australia) issue of the Journal of Religious History (December 2015); and, with R. Toivo, ‘Gender, Objects and Emotions in Scandinavian

History’, a special issue of the Journal of Scandinavian History ‘CIRCULATING EMOTIONS, OBJECTS AND PEOPLE: (forthcoming, 2016). Her current research concerns GLOBAL MISSIONS IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD’ emotions, materiality and colonial encounters in the context of Moravian missions. This paper will explore the vital role emotions played in the social practices of global Protestant missions in the early modern period. Leading Protestant mission Spencer J. Weinreich societies, such as the Moravian Church, had a strong (University of Oxford) Pietist background, which privileged personal emotional experiences over knowledge of the ‘EMOTING THE SPANISH ARMADA: PEDRO DE Scripture. Culturally accepted emotions can be held to RIBADENEYRA, S. J. AND THE EMOTIONALITY OF constitute ‘emotional styles’, as William Reddy has EARLY MODERN CATHOLIC-PROTESTANT argued, where social norms of emotions are promoted ENCOUNTERS’ and group members are socialised accordingly, and where transgressions or non-compliance are usually Usually the preserve of military and political historians, punished. Indigenous local cultures and Protestant the Spanish Armada has yet to be analysed as an mission societies had distinct emotional styles which emotional event, especially for the losing side. This differed significantly, and potential converts, actual paper seeks to redress that imbalance and, more converts, and those who ‘relapsed’ engaged in many generally, to explore the affective dimensions of early different ways with the emotional practices of ‘their’ modern Catholic Europe’s interactions with mission society, as well as the wider colonial society. In Protestantism. It takes as its case study the pre- and this paper I will discuss how, in the context of early post-Armada writings of the Spanish Jesuit Pedro de modern colonial expansion, a number of questions Ribadeneyra: an exhortation to the embarking soldiers, arise about the power imbalance between indigenous a letter-memorial attempting to make sense of the converts and missionaries and how this difference expedition’s defeat, and a treatise on tribulation influenced the nature of embodied emotional practices. published the year after the disaster. Close readings of My case studies will be drawn from the colonial the texts composed immediately before and after the archives and ethnographic collections of the early Armada offer distinct but complementary profiles of modern Moravian mission movement. the emotional contours of Catholic-Protestant interaction. Before the disaster, the English are, to Jacqueline Van Gent is an early modern historian at The adapt a phrase from Lévi-Strauss, ‘good to feel with’: University of Western Australia and a Chief Investigator with they provide a theologically appropriate escape valve the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions for national and individual frustration and anger – (Europe, 1100–1800). She has published on early modern towards England, certainly, but more broadly towards religion, gender and colonial mission encounters, religious conversions and emotions, and on gender in the Orange- Spain’s political difficulties. Similarly, the divine Nassau family. Her books include Magic, Body and the Self in mission to fight heresy renders morally licit Eighteenth-Century Sweden (Brill, 2009); with A. Schaser and Ribadeneyra’s (potentially sinful) pride in king and K. Rüther, Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth country. In the letter-memorial, however, the Century: German Mission at Home and Abroad (Ashgate, 2015); Protestants have all but disappeared: Ribadeneyra and, with N. Etherington, P. Brock and G. Griffiths, The eschews an emotional reaction for a logical one, Indigenous Christian Evangelist in British Empire History, 1750– attributing the defeat to Spain’s own uncorrected sins. 1940: Questions of Authority (Brill, 2015). She has just Theological concerns have closed off emotional completed, with S. Broomhall, Gender, Power and Identity in avenues: grief and rage, seeking an external focus, are the Early Modern Nassau Family, 1580–1814 (Ashgate, 2016) and Dynastic Colonialism: Gender, Materiality and the Early dangerously likely to lead to the unthinkable Modern House of Orange-Nassau (Routledge, 2016). She has suggestion that God might favour the heretics. In light also edited, with S. Broomhall, Governing Masculinities in the of this obvious tension, the paper concludes by reading Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others (Ashgate, the Tratado de la tribulación as an ‘emotional theodicy’,

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an attempt to process the uncomfortably theological from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth century, for problems of the Armada’s emotionality. example those of Nicolaus von Popplau, Leo Rôzmital and Bertrandon de la Brocquière. Spencer J. Weinreich is a postgraduate student in ecclesiastical history at the University of Oxford, where he is Jörg Wettlaufer studied History, History of Art and Physical an Ertegun Scholar. He received his BA in history from Yale Anthroplogy at Bochum, Kiel and Paris. He received his PhD University in 2015, being honoured with the Warren High in 1998 for an interdisciplinary study on a problem in the Scholarship Prize for work in the humanities, as well as history of late medieval law. From 1996 to 2011 he was several prizes for his senior essay. His work has appeared in involved in a research project on late medieval courts and Early Science and Medicine, and he serves as an assistant residences. At the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities he editor for the Journal of Jesuit Studies. His annotated worked, from 2012 to 2015, for the Academy of Science and translation of Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Historia eclesiástica del Humanities at Göttingen on the project ‘Digital Library and scisma del reyno de Inglaterra is forthcoming with Brill’s Virtual Museum’. He is currently a member of the E- ‘Jesuit Studies’ series. Research Alliance Council and the Goettingen Dialog in Digital Humanities Advisory Board.

Jörg Wettlaufer (University of Göttingen) Carol J. Williams (Monash University) ‘EMOTIONAL ENCOUNTERS IN LATE MEDIEVAL TRAVEL ACCOUNTS’ ‘AVIGNON 1309–1377: SITE OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN MUSIC’ Based on a corpus of 287 late medieval travel accounts collected at www.digiberichte.de, this presentation Political factionalism in Rome and the increasing aims to discover and unveil emotional encounters in pressure exerted by the French King Philip IV, first-hand accounts of German, Dutch and French prompted Pope Clement V to move the papal capital to travellers who went on pilgrimages to the Holy Land Avignon in 1309 where he remained until his death in and Europe. Although the genre of medieval travel 1314. After a two-year period of botched elections, accounts is generally not known for emotional eventually Pope John XXII settled in the chair for a language and, in many accounts, the world is only seen period of time unusual in this century, lasting from and understood through the eyes of European visitors, 1316 until 1334. The popes who followed were not so there are a number of accounts from the late fifteenth long-lived: Benedict XII (1334–1342); Clement VI (1342– century which provide some ideas about the emotional 1352); Innocent VI (1352–1362); Urban V (1362–1370) experiences of travellers during their encounters with and finally Gregory XI (1370–1377). Thereafter, the foreign people and cultures. Because some accounts papacy moved back to Rome. The papal court at are ego-documents and contain eye-witness reports of Avignon was luxuriously brilliant. Religious services personal experiences during travel, it is possible to were particularly opulent, and were graced with the discover late medieval travellers’ emotional polyphonic settings of the liturgy trying out the very landscapes across different social strata. But even latest methods of composition. Manuscript evidence, without such ego-related reports, travel accounts particularly from the Ivrea and Apt codices, supports contain valuable information about medieval attitudes this and also reflects the burgeoning growth in the towards emotions. Accounts of miracles and popular evolution of the secular courtly song. This developing biblical stories, for example, often include emotional style has been called Ars subtilior and seen as an language and terms. Apart from tracing travellers’ outgrowth of the earlier Parisian Ars nova. Jewish emotional and religious excitement while visiting music also flourished under the Avignon popes, since reliquaries and touching sacred objects, this talk will Clement V protected the Jews from the expulsion focus on their emotional reaction to foreign customs orders of King Philip and the musical tradition of the and emotional codes during their journey. The talk will synagogue was preserved there. Although the Avignon therefore concentrate on understanding the usage of papacy was overwhelmingly French, with all seven of emotional language in detailed eye-witness accounts the popes and 111 of the 134 cardinals created at this

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time being French, it warmly welcomed cultural a sort of ‘inquisitorial’ investigation into the perceived immigration from elsewhere in Europe, particularly deviances and undesired ‘boundary crossings’ taking north Italy. This paper will focus on Ars subtilior as the place in the impoverished, poorly manned outpost. product of a cultural exchange of music theorists, Puckle’s diary suggests both an acute awareness of the composers and performers between the north and ‘blurring’ of European and indigenous practices around south of France, tempered by the influx of fresh ideas Mesulipatnam and a distinct anxiety about the about the making and performing of music from Italy. consequences of cultural isolationism. I argue that these widening spheres of influence and mobility Most of Carol Williams’s research work is undertaken in necessitated novel articulations and projections of collaboration with professors Constant Mews and John emotional control while also posing essential questions Crossley. They have published an edition and translation of about the interactions between and across European the Ars Musice of Johannes de Grocheio (Medieval Institute and South Asian cultures. The Company’s records, as Publications, 2011) and recently submitted for publication an such, represent an invaluable affective text through edition and translation of the Tractatus de tonis of Guy of Saint-Denis. Carol’s most recent solo publication is the essay which to map early modern transformations and ‘Modes and Manipulation: Music, the State, and Emotion’ in encounters beyond the realm of high politics. Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100–1800 (Brill, 2015), a memorial volume for Philippa Maddern. She is also a Mark Williams is an early modern historian with interests in performing musician, playing harp and rebec in the early mobility, emotion and cross-cultural interaction. His recently music ensemble, Acord. published monograph, The King’s Irishmen: The Irish in the Exiled Court of Charles II (Boydell, 2014) employed the experience of exile to investigate issues of dislocation, disillusionment and community among this highly mobile Mark Williams group. The monograph was shortlisted for the Royal (Cardiff University) Historical Society’s 2014 Whitfield Prize. He has published articles in the English Historical Review, Journal of British ‘AN EMOTIONAL COMPANY: MOBILITY, COMMUNITY Studies and Cultural & Social History. AND CONTROL IN THE RECORDS OF THE ENGLISH EAST-INDIA COMPANY’ Hannes Ziegler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) This paper breaks new historical ground by considering the emotional character of the English East India ‘EMOTIONAL DISORDER: THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE’S Company in the latter half of the seventeenth century. CONFRONTATION WITH THE TURKISH THREAT AND Though more commonly used to chart the foundations THE CONFESSIONAL DIVIDE (1586–1606)’ of British rule in India, the Company’s records also speak to the emotional rhythms which shaped it and The beginning of the Long Turkish War in 1593 caused the community/ies of which it was comprised. Building a torrent of so-called Türkendrucke (printed pamphlets upon recent work by Susan Broomhall, Miles Ogborn concerned with the Turks or the Turkish War), both and Philip J. Stern, this paper will consider the place of from Catholic as well as Protestant commentators in emotion in the establishment of the linguistic, spatial the Empire. The encounter and confrontation of and cross-cultural boundaries across which Company Christian soldiers with the Turks at the Empire’s activity unfolded. This will be done through close borders was accompanied by a number of emotional analysis of the form, function and content of Company discourses, trying to instill appropriate feelings in the correspondence and journals, wherein the particular hearts of soldiers and those who stayed behind. The anxieties and implicit emotional regimes of its righteous feelings of the Christians were, moreover, merchants, administrators and intermediaries can be contrasted with the morally and theologically corrupted mapped. emotions of the Turks. However, at the same time that Catholics like the Jesuit, Georg Scherer, and Central to this paper will be the diary of Major William Protestants like the Lutheran court preacher, Lukas Puckle, whose visit to the Company fort of Osiander, engaged in the anti-Turkish pamphlet Mesulipatnam in 1675–1676 provides, in unusual depth, campaign, they were also deeply involved in a pamphlet

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war with one another. Here, too, emotions were of central importance, yet the nature of these emotions and their status as arguments was markedly different.

Based on a number of selected printed sources, this paper will take this difference as a starting point and explore the triangular setting of emotional confrontation just described, giving preference to emotional language and emotional stereotypes within both the Christian discourse against the Turks and the inter-confessional discourse between Catholics and Protestants. The paper will focus on the 1580s, when confessional propaganda reached a first peak in the Empire, and the 1590s, the heyday of anti-Turkish pamphlets.

Hannes Ziegler has studied modern history, medieval history and cultural anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and at The University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Masters degree in 2011. Since then, he has worked as a research assistant with the Chair for Early

Modern History at LMU Munich (Prof. Dr. Arndt Brendecke). Hannes completed and defended his PhD thesis on ‘Trust and Politics in the Holy Roman Empire in the Confessional Age’ in July 2015.

Francisca Hoyer (Uppsala University)

‘WRITING ANOTHER CHRISTINA. BODY AND EMOTIONS IN QUEEN CHRISTINA’S MEMOIRS.’

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