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Love And Loyal Actions': Ritual Affect And Royal Authority, 1688-1760, Amy Oberlin
Love And Loyal Actions': Ritual Affect And Royal Authority, 1688-1760, Amy Oberlin
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This project examines the changing emotional relationship between the English royal court and the public during the reigns of the last Stuarts (1688 - 1714) and the early Hanoverians (1714-1760), when the court was forced to abandon traditional representations of divine right. During this period, the rise of print, the growth of representative institutions and changing cultural attitudes to emotion created a new style of monarchy, one more emotionally accessible to its subjects. These changes signaled the death of rule by divine right and the birth of a modern monarchy. In essence, the monarch moved from heaven to earth, becoming …
Liturgical Celebrations With Emotional Expectations In Auxerre, 840-908, Thomas A. Greene
Liturgical Celebrations With Emotional Expectations In Auxerre, 840-908, Thomas A. Greene
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Scholars traditionally date the origin of "affective piety" to the late-eleventh century. The place of emotions in early medieval devotional activity, therefore, has yet to be properly acknowledged. Based on exegetical and homiletic material written at the monastery of Saint-Germain (Auxerre) between 840 and 908, I argue that liturgical celebrations were to take place in a context suffused with both the experience and expression of emotions.