Provides a new, intersectional investigation of affects, feelings, and emotions in late Middle English literature.

The first part of the book covers the theories of the emotions of Plato and Aristotle and later ancient views from Stoicism to Neoplatonism (Ch. 1) and their re

1. This study is a new, contextually sensitive methodology for pinpointing the emotional aspects of medieval texts. 2. It is a unique appraisal of the therapeut

Contemporary debates on God's emotionality are divided between two extremes. Impassibilists deny God's emotionality on the basis of God's omniscience, omnipoten

Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situati