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Motus mixti et compositi: The Portrayal of Mixed and Compound Emotions in the Visual and Literary Arts of Europe, 1500â1700
Series: - Intersections, Volume: 90
This book examines deployments of mixed emotion in the literary and pictorial arts of early modern Europe. It consists of two parts, the first focusing on portrayals of mixed emotion in theatre, poetry, and prose, the second on forms and functions of mixed emotion in spiritual exercises centering on pictorial images, and on the heuristic and/or restorative functions of portraying mixed emotion.
Contributors: Stijn Bussels, Tom Conley, Wietse de Boer, Carolin A. Giere, Barbara A. Kaminska, Graham R. Lea, Walter S. Melion, Mitchell Merback, Ruth Sargent Noyes, Bram Van Oostveldt, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bart Ramakers, Lukas Reddemann, Ludovica Sasso, Aline Smeesters, Paul J. Smith, Anita Traninger, and Elliott D. Wise.
Contributors: Stijn Bussels, Tom Conley, Wietse de Boer, Carolin A. Giere, Barbara A. Kaminska, Graham R. Lea, Walter S. Melion, Mitchell Merback, Ruth Sargent Noyes, Bram Van Oostveldt, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bart Ramakers, Lukas Reddemann, Ludovica Sasso, Aline Smeesters, Paul J. Smith, Anita Traninger, and Elliott D. Wise.
Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval-and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster. He has published five monographs and well over a hundred articles, and has edited more than forty collective volumes. His latest publication is a critical edition of Erasmus's Apophthegmata, books VâVIII (Brill, 2024).
Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University, Atlanta, where he directed the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry between 2017 and 2023. He is the author of three monographs and a critical edition of Karel van Manderâs Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting (Brill, 2023), co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of twenty collected volumes, and author of more than a hundred articles.
Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University, Atlanta, where he directed the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry between 2017 and 2023. He is the author of three monographs and a critical edition of Karel van Manderâs Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting (Brill, 2023), co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of twenty collected volumes, and author of more than a hundred articles.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Introduction: Motus mixti et compositi â the Portrayal of Mixed and Compound Emotions in the Visual and Literary Arts of Europe, 1500â1700
âWalter S. Melion
2 All Motion Discovers Us: Moral Discernment and the Role of the Passions in Willem van Nieulandtâs Nero (1618)
âBart Ramakers
3 Staging the In-Between: Compound, Conflicting and Shifting Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Neo-Latin Drama from the Dutch Republic
âLukas Reddemann
4 Between Fleeting and Compound Emotions in Neo-Latin Lyric Poetry on 'Turks': Georgius Sisgoreusâ Elegia de Sibenicensis agri vastatione
âLudovica Sasso
5 Shifting Emotions in Neo-Latin Psalm Poetry and Erotic Elegy: George Buchanan and Janus Lernutius
âCarolin A. Giere
6 On Red and White Cheeks: Jakob Baldeâs Poetic Ekphrases on a Triptych by Christoph Schwarz in the Light of the Scholastic Theory of the Passions
âAline Smeesters
7 Mixed Motives: the Art of Joachim Du Bellay, 1549â1558
âTom Conley
8 Tears of Love and Sorrow: the Affective Regime of the European Pastoral Tradition
âAnita Traninger
9 âHow We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thingâ: Conflicting Emotions in Rabelais and Montaigne
âPaul J. Smith
10 The Troubles of Christian Perfection: Berinzaga, Gagliardi, Borromeo
âWietse de Boer
11 O vos omnes: Recognition, Tragic Emotion, and the Passerby Topos in Northern European Art around 1500
âMitchell Merback
12 Mixed Emotion and Spiritual Perfection in Abraham Bloemaertâs Sylva anachoretica of 1619
âWalter S. Melion
13 Spiritual Joy in the Face of Death: Compound Emotions in Texts and Images of the Martyrs of the Japan Mission
âRaphaèle Preisinger
14 Materialities of Mixed Emotions and Spiritual Martyrdom between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Grand Duchy of Tuscany
âRuth Sargent Noyes
15 Francisci chorda traxit ad se plurima corda: âDrawingâ the Heartâs Emotions in Jan Provoostâs Diptych of Christ Carrying the Cross
âElliott D. Wise
16 âSymbolic Anatomiesâ: Hendrick Goltzius and the Ambiguities of Early Modern Disability
âBarbara A. Kaminska
17 Exploring Complex Emotions through the Portrayal of Dialogic Exchange: Pieter Lastmanâs Paul and Barnabas in Lystra of 1617
âGraham R. Lea
18 Between Despair and Hope: Raising Emotions with Dutch Seventeenth-Century Marine Paintings and Prints
âStijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt
Index Nominum
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Introduction: Motus mixti et compositi â the Portrayal of Mixed and Compound Emotions in the Visual and Literary Arts of Europe, 1500â1700
âWalter S. Melion
Part 1: Portraying Mixed Emotions in the Literary Arts
Section A: Mixed Emotions in Dutch and Latin Drama
2 All Motion Discovers Us: Moral Discernment and the Role of the Passions in Willem van Nieulandtâs Nero (1618)
âBart Ramakers
3 Staging the In-Between: Compound, Conflicting and Shifting Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Neo-Latin Drama from the Dutch Republic
âLukas Reddemann
Section B: Mixed Emotions in Neo-Latin and French Poetry
4 Between Fleeting and Compound Emotions in Neo-Latin Lyric Poetry on 'Turks': Georgius Sisgoreusâ Elegia de Sibenicensis agri vastatione
âLudovica Sasso
5 Shifting Emotions in Neo-Latin Psalm Poetry and Erotic Elegy: George Buchanan and Janus Lernutius
âCarolin A. Giere
6 On Red and White Cheeks: Jakob Baldeâs Poetic Ekphrases on a Triptych by Christoph Schwarz in the Light of the Scholastic Theory of the Passions
âAline Smeesters
7 Mixed Motives: the Art of Joachim Du Bellay, 1549â1558
âTom Conley
Section C: Mixed Emotions in Prose Literature
8 Tears of Love and Sorrow: the Affective Regime of the European Pastoral Tradition
âAnita Traninger
9 âHow We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thingâ: Conflicting Emotions in Rabelais and Montaigne
âPaul J. Smith
10 The Troubles of Christian Perfection: Berinzaga, Gagliardi, Borromeo
âWietse de Boer
Part 2: Portraying Mixed Emotions in the Visual Arts
Section A: Mixed Emotions in Image-based Spiritual Exercises
11 O vos omnes: Recognition, Tragic Emotion, and the Passerby Topos in Northern European Art around 1500
âMitchell Merback
12 Mixed Emotion and Spiritual Perfection in Abraham Bloemaertâs Sylva anachoretica of 1619
âWalter S. Melion
13 Spiritual Joy in the Face of Death: Compound Emotions in Texts and Images of the Martyrs of the Japan Mission
âRaphaèle Preisinger
14 Materialities of Mixed Emotions and Spiritual Martyrdom between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Grand Duchy of Tuscany
âRuth Sargent Noyes
Section B: Heuristic and Sanative Images of Mixed Emotions
15 Francisci chorda traxit ad se plurima corda: âDrawingâ the Heartâs Emotions in Jan Provoostâs Diptych of Christ Carrying the Cross
âElliott D. Wise
16 âSymbolic Anatomiesâ: Hendrick Goltzius and the Ambiguities of Early Modern Disability
âBarbara A. Kaminska
17 Exploring Complex Emotions through the Portrayal of Dialogic Exchange: Pieter Lastmanâs Paul and Barnabas in Lystra of 1617
âGraham R. Lea
18 Between Despair and Hope: Raising Emotions with Dutch Seventeenth-Century Marine Paintings and Prints
âStijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt
Index Nominum
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