Love in Monstrelet.m4v

Thinking Historically about Medieval Emotions. The recent focus on emotions in history raises numerous methodological questions. How are historians to approach texts that include emotions? This essay summarizes three dominant interpretative paradigms for interpreting medieval emotions. In the first, these emotions are seen as the uninhibited release of affect. In the second, they are viewed as well-understood modes of communication in a society that used gesture as often as it used words.