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Cover 1 Dedication 3 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 Contents 6 Foreword 10 Acknowledgements 13 Introduction 16 1: The Christianization of Emotion (Third to Fifth Centuries) 24 The theology of emotion 24 An emotional God 24 God’s wrath: a proof of his existence 27 God is love 29 Passion incarnate 31 The anthropology of emotion 33 The Christian passions 33 Augustine: father of medieval affectivity 36 Sin and punishment 40 A new order of humanity 42 2: The City of Desire: The Monastic Laboratory 46 The desert: from the care of the body to the care of the soul 46 The bad thoughts of Evagrius of Pontus 49 Cassian and the foundations of community: from charity to virtuous friendship 52 Affective conversion in Western monasticism 55 Monastic norms for converting the emotions 55 Gregory the Great and sacrificial emotion 59 3: Emotions for a Christian Society: The Frankish World (Fifth to Tenth Centuries) 64 The early Middle Ages: a fragmented age? 64 Emotional bonds 65 Amicitia/inimicitia 66 And what of women in all of this? 72 The rise of heavenly emotions 74 The spread of Christian feeling 74 New forms of lay devotion 76 Moral teaching 78 The Carolingian vision of society: unity in love 8

Author

Boquet, Damien,Nagy, Piroska

Language

EN