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Genderand Emotions in Medieval and EarlyModern Europe: DestroyingOrder, StructuringDisorder In mernoryof PhilippaMaddern (t 952-2014) Edited by Scholarleader rnentor,friend. SUSANBROOMHALL The Uniuers ity of Western Áustralia ASHGATE @Susan Broomhall20l5 AII righm reserved.No parc of rhis publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval Contents systemor transmictedin any form or by any means,electronic, mechanical, phorocopying, recordingor otherwisewithour cheprior permissionof the publisher. SusanBroomhall has asserted her right under rhe Copyright,Designs and ParenrcAct, 1988, to be identified asthe ediror of rhis work. 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Jacquesde Vitry 35 ISBN 978 - I -47 24- 5327 -3 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978 - | -4724- 69 I 4-4 (e-book)-- Megan Cassidy-Welch ISBN 978-I-4724-6915-1(epub)1. Emotions--History.2. Sexrole--Europe--Hisrory. 3. Social structure--Flistory.4. Civil society--History.5. Europe--Civilizarion.6. Civilization,Medieval. 3 Married Noblewomen asDiplomars: Affective 7. Renaissance.I. Broomhall,Susan., editor of compilation. Diplomacy 51 Tiacy Ádarns 8F511.G4632015 303.3'20940902--dc23 4 ordering Distant Affections: FosreringLove and Loyalty in the 2015009338 correspondenceof catherine de Medici ro the Spanishcourr, 1568- 1572 67 SusanBroomhall ISBN 978 r 47245327 3 (hbk) iSBN 978147 2469 r44 (ebk- PDF) ISBN 9781472469151(ebk - ePUB) PART TI: CHRONICLING FEELINGS OF DISASTERAND RUIN 5 Emodons and the SocialOrder of Time: Constructing History at Louvaink CarthusianHouse,1486-1525 89 MIX PaperfÍom Matthew S. Charnoion Íêsponsiblesourcos FSC Printed in the United Kingdom by Henry Ling Limired, FSC" C013985 at the DorserPress, Dorchesrer, DTI lHD Chapter 5 Emotionsand the SocialOrder of Time: Constructing History at Louvains CarthusianFIouse, 1486-1525 Matthew S. Champion The first recorded moves to found a male Carthusian house in Louvain date from the late 1480s,with a purchaseof land by \íalter Waterlet, a member of the chapel of the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, provost of Maubeuse and scholasterof St Gudule's in Brussels.tln 1489, Charles'swidow; Margaret of York, laid the foundation stone oi the new monastery, inaugurating an ambitious building programme that continued into the sixteenth century.z Yet the foundations of Louvain's Carthusian monastery were not simplv laid t This chapter is written, with love, for Pip Maddern. I would like to thank Joanne Anderson,JohnArnold, Michael Champion, SarahGador-\írhyte, Miri Rubin and Miranda 'Chronique Stanyonfor their help in preparingthis chapter.E. Reusens, de la Chartreusede Louvain depuissa fondation, en 1498,jusqu'à I'année 7525',Ánalectespzur seruirà I'histoire ecclésiastiquede la Belgique tl (tslZ): 228-99 (hereafter Carthusian Cbronicle),at 230. The chronicle text used in rhis chapter follows this largely reliableedition, exceprwhere ir 'Walter'W'aterlet deviatesfrom the manuscript source; (alsoknown as'WalterHenry) was a one-timecanon of Louvain'sprincipal church,St Petert. SeeE. Reusens,'Lafondation de la Chartreusede Louvain et les prieursde ce couventjusquen1762',Ánalectes pour seruir à I'histoireecclésiastique de la Belgique 16 (1879)t 215. Seefurrher Micheline Soenen,'lJn amateurde musique à Bruxellesà la fin du XVe siècle:Gautier Henri, chanoine ec écolàtre de Sainte-Gudule',in Álburn Carlos ryftk,ed. Hilda Coppejans-Desmedt(Brussels: 'The Algemeen Rijksarchief, 1987); Barbara Haggh, Officium of the RecollectioFestorum Beate Virginis by Gilles Carlier and Guillaume Du Fay: ks Celebration and Reform in Leuvenl in Receuezce rnien petit labeur: Studies in RenaissanceMusic in Honour of lgnace Bossuyt,eds Mark Delaereand PieterBergé (Leuven' Leuven University Press,2008), 93-8. t On the Burgundians, Carthusian patronage, and spiritualiry, see Mario Dainen 'Collective and Robert Stein, Memory and PersonalMernoria. The Carthusian Monastery of Scheutas a Crossroadsof Urban and Princely Patronagein Fifteenth-Century Brabantl in Mérnoiresconflictuelles et rnythesconcurrents dans lespays bourguignons(ca 1380-1580): Rencontresde Luxernbourg (22 au 25 septembre20II), edsJ.M. Cauchiesand P. Peporte 'secret (Neuchàtel: Centre Européen d'Érudes Bourguignonnes, 2012); Ezechiel Lotz, Rooms:Private Spaces for PrivatePrayer in Late-MedievalBurgundy and cheNetherlandsl in 90 Genderand Emotions in Medieuaranà Early ModernEurope Ernotionsand theSocial Order ofTirne 91 in stone.AJong with the physicalbuilding works, the Carthusiansconsrructed world of the monastery,the ordering of dme, and the deploymentof emotions, their monastic house through writing and reading history, lirurgical and this chapter seeksto understand some of the complex v/ays in which affective memorial,practices,and architecture i-"ges, incfuding át.nsivè "Àd -.orn-,rrity stained- structureswere shapedby the unfolding of time, and how narrative temporalities glasswindows. Thesepractices consrructed a áf memory, shaped shaped,and were shapedby,languages of affect. through aft^ectiveengagements with biblical narrative and the narrative of the Louvain'sCarthusian chronicle existsin a singlemanuscript compiled in the monastery'sown history.For Louvain's Carthusians,time wasshot through wirh first half of the sixteenth century.TThe manuscript may be, or include parts of, emotions; emotions that orderedthe perception and experienceof time. a'certain book written on paper for the refectory including histories,sermons AJtho Lgh the monasteryw"s ia.gèly destroyedin tÀe eighreenthcentury, a and legendsof the saints'recorded in British Library, MS Harley 3597, which number of sourcesfor considering iis affectivelife survive.3The chief -",.ri"1 would suggestthat the chronicle was read communally in the monastery.8The remainsof the houseare the famous stained-glasswindows commissionedin the chronicleb first part \Maswritten byJan Vekenstijl,one of the first brothers sent to earlysixte enth century,which weresold th. monasreryt dissolutionand "ft.t are found the community.elt commenceswith the purchaseof land, continueswith now scatteredacross the United Kingdom and North America.aThe chieftextual a narÍative ordered by building work on the monasteryt cells,and concludes sourcesfor the houset earlyhistory arevisiration recordscommencing in 1505,5 in 1502. A secondchronicler then begins,returning to the year 1494 to mark and an important manuscript miscellanyconraining the monart.ry'i.hronicle the death of Waterlet and continuing in a strict yearly division to 1525. The from its earliestyears.6 The chronicleincludes detail-s of the socialánd political chronicleappears in amanuscriptmiscellanyshowingfewsigns ofunified design, networks of the men and women who founded and populated the htuse, as but framed by an opening tract, the Speculurnbiblie dentonstratiuumgenealogie weli as.theway thesenerworks were memorialisedin the monastery'shistory. dornini nostri Iesu Chrisri (Mirror of the Bible demonstrating the Genealogy of Central to constrlrctingchis history was the deploymenrand representationof Our LordJesusChrist) (Figure5.1).'o normativeemotional responsesto monastic life. The normariveahective regimes the Speculum commenceswith Adam and concludes with a diagrammatic oflouvain's Carthusianhouse are cast into relief by a rupture in narrarivetexture figure of the church. The remainder of the manuscript - at leastin its current midway thro-ughthechronicle, where time orderedbyihe consrrucrionof each form - might be read as takingup the courseof historyin the final ageof the monasticcell shiftsinto a.radicallypersonalised and highly emotivecatalogue of world, from the inauguration of the church at Pentecostto the coming of the extraordinary events,violent crimes, and disasrersclusteri.rg rrorrrrd the á,r.rr, eschaton.Interpreted this way, the Carthusianchronicle participatesin a larger of the sixteenth century. By considering rhe nexus of rhe"socialand material history, one modelled on biblical temporality, marked by long continuities, Studies genealogicalthinking, and a potentially progre ssiveHeilgeschichte.tt In affective in CartbusianMonasticisnt. in theLate Middle Áges,ed.Julian M. Luxford (Ti-rrnhour, Brepols,2008), 166-77. terms,the passageof time here might seemunmarked by rupture and violence,a 'Charrreuse 3 See Henri Delvaux, locusarnoenushke the paradisiacalgarden of the Speculumt first folio. Yet biblical de Louvaini in Monasticon Belge: Proaince de Brabant, ed. Dom U. Berlière, 8 vols (Liège: Cencre narional de recherches d'histoire history is also a history of rupture, of grief and joy, afliction and blessings, religieuse,I8g0-19g3), IV.6 (1972),I49Z_3. exile and Íeturn, This affective configuration was taken