Motus mixti et compositi: The Portrayal of Mixed and Compound Emotions in the Visual and Literary Arts of Europe, 1500–1700

Karl A.E. Enenkel, Walter S. Melion (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

700 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69460-6 (ISBN)

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The book examines the representation of affective complexity in the literary and pictorial arts of Northern Europe between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, asking how and why, by what means and to what ends alloyed or multilayered emotions were showcased.

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 are 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 some hundred and fourty articles, and edited more than fourty collective volumes. Recently, he has finished a critical commented edition of Erasmus' Apophthegmata, books V-VIII, to appear in ASD published by Brill. Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in 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 Mander’s Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting, co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of twenty volumes, and has published more than one hundred articles.

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List of Illustrations

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

1 Introduction: Motus mixti et compositi – the Portrayal of Mixed and Compound Emotions in the Visual and Literary Arts of Europe, 1500–1700

Walter 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 Nieulandt’s Nero (1618)

Bart Ramakers

3 Staging the In-Between: Compound, Conflicting and Shifting Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Neo-Latin Drama from the Dutch Republic

Lukas 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 Sisgoreus’ Elegia de Sibenicensis agri vastatione

Ludovica Sasso

5 Shifting Emotions in Neo-Latin Psalm Poetry and Erotic Elegy: George Buchanan and Janus Lernutius

Carolin A. Giere

6 On Red and White Cheeks: Jakob Balde’s Poetic Ekphrases on a Triptych by Christoph Schwarz in the Light of the Scholastic Theory of the Passions

Aline Smeesters

7 Mixed Motives: the Art of Joachim Du Bellay, 1549–1558

Tom Conley

Section C: Mixed Emotions in Prose Literature

8 Tears of Love and Sorrow: the Affective Regime of the European Pastoral Tradition

Anita Traninger

9 ‘How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing’: Conflicting Emotions in Rabelais and Montaigne

Paul J. Smith

10 The Troubles of Christian Perfection: Berinzaga, Gagliardi, Borromeo

Wietse 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

Mitchell Merback

12 Mixed Emotion and Spiritual Perfection in Abraham Bloemaert’s Sylva anachoretica of 1619

Walter S. Melion

13 Spiritual Joy in the Face of Death: Compound Emotions in Texts and Images of the Martyrs of the Japan Mission

Raphaèle Preisinger

14 Materialities of Mixed Emotions and Spiritual Martyrdom between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Grand Duchy of Tuscany

Ruth Sargent Noyes

Section B: Heuristic and Sanative Images of Mixed Emotions

15 Francisci chorda traxit ad se plurima corda: ‘Drawing’ the Heart’s Emotions in Jan Provoost’s Diptych of Christ Carrying the Cross

Elliott D. Wise

16 ‘Symbolic Anatomies’: Hendrick Goltzius and the Ambiguities of Early Modern Disability

Barbara A. Kaminska

17 Exploring Complex Emotions through the Portrayal of Dialogic Exchange: Pieter Lastman’s Paul and Barnabas in Lystra of 1617

Graham R. Lea

18 Between Despair and Hope: Raising Emotions with Dutch Seventeenth-Century Marine Paintings and Prints

Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt

Index Nominum

Erscheinungsdatum	25.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Intersections ; 90
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-69460-9 / 9004694609
ISBN-13	978-90-04-69460-6 / 9789004694606
Zustand	Neuware