Collective Emotions, History Writing and Change
The Case of the Pataria (Milan, Eleventh Century)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5831310 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Piroska Nagy (Université du Québec à Montréal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 132-152 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Emotions History Culture Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2206-7485 • E-ISSN: 2208-522X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/2208522x-02010007 |
| OpenAlex | W2887742264 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
What are collective emotions and how should we deal with accounts of them in historical narratives? Addressing these questions through a case study of the movement of the Pataria in Milan (1057−1075), this essay reflects on some mechanisms used to assign collective emotions by authors of medieval narratives. It argues that while individual and collective emotions are not distinct in the Latin vocabulary of eleventh-century texts, the authors still had a clear idea of what we call collective emotions, which they closely linked to political mobilisation and upheaval. Although the assignation of emotions to public actors formed part of a rhetoric of denigration, the essay argues that one cannot understand public emotions in these texts solely as a rhetorical effect within what Ranajit Guha calls 'the prose of counter-insurgency
Eleventh · Rhetorical modes · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |