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The psychology of emotion and study of the medieval period

The psychology of emotion and study of the medieval period

By Carolyne Larrington

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 10, Issue 2 (2001)

Introduction: ‘What I am after is not hard and testable in the narrow empirical ways of a certain style of social science’ warns the legal historian W.I. Miller, a pioneer in the field of the history of emotion. Miller is, in places, dismissive of psychology and the insights it has to offer, yet the psychology of emotion is a growing field and discoveries made in it can be illuminating for medievalists. What follows is an outline of three particular aspects of psychology of emotion and some suggestion of how these might be productive for thinking about emotions in texts of the medieval period.

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