Medieval sensibilities : a history of emotions in the middle ages / Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy ; translated by Robart Shaw.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-338) and index.

The Christianization of emotion (third to fifth centuries) -- The city of desire : the monastic laboratory -- Emotions for a christian society : the Frankish world (fifth to tenth centuries) -- The zenith of monastic affection -- The ethics and aesthetics of aristocratic emotions in feudal society (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) -- The emotive nature of man (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) -- The politics of princely emotion (twelfth to fifteenth centuries) -- The mystical conquest of emotion (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) -- Common emotion (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Figure credits -- Index.