“She burst into tears to incite him to fury”: Humiliation, gender, and emotions in the revolt of 1241–1242
de Vasselot de Régné, Clément
“She burst into tears to incite him to fury”: Humiliation, gender, and emotions in the revolt of 1241–1242 - 2022.
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In 1241, a bourgeois from La Rochelle sent a very detailed letter to Blanche of Castile warning her that the Poitevin barons were preparing a revolt. The specifics of the letter have often been taken at face value and used to draw a psychological portrait of the rebels, especially Isabella of Angoulême. In reality, the countess-queen deliberately employed and transgressed an emotional language and code of behaviour shared by all of the members of the revolt. As such, this missive holds a wealth of information that can be used to understand these codes that governed the dramatization of emotions in the thirteenth century, as well as their gendered dimension. Therefore, taken with the other texts related to the revolt of 1241–1242, this exceptional document illustrates the extent to which the emotional language and game of humiliation established a link between mental representations and their translation into acts, occupied a major place in political communication and relations among the powerful, and contributed to the smooth progress of governmental strategies.
“She burst into tears to incite him to fury”: Humiliation, gender, and emotions in the revolt of 1241–1242 - 2022.
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In 1241, a bourgeois from La Rochelle sent a very detailed letter to Blanche of Castile warning her that the Poitevin barons were preparing a revolt. The specifics of the letter have often been taken at face value and used to draw a psychological portrait of the rebels, especially Isabella of Angoulême. In reality, the countess-queen deliberately employed and transgressed an emotional language and code of behaviour shared by all of the members of the revolt. As such, this missive holds a wealth of information that can be used to understand these codes that governed the dramatization of emotions in the thirteenth century, as well as their gendered dimension. Therefore, taken with the other texts related to the revolt of 1241–1242, this exceptional document illustrates the extent to which the emotional language and game of humiliation established a link between mental representations and their translation into acts, occupied a major place in political communication and relations among the powerful, and contributed to the smooth progress of governmental strategies.
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