Feeling Things

Stephanie Downes is a research fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her current research on the representation of human facial expression in late medieval textual culture is funded by the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 1100-1800. With Andrew Lynch and Katrina O'Loughlin, she has edited Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature (2016), and with Stephanie Trigg, a special issue of the journal postmedieval, 'Facing Up to the History of Emotions' (April 2017). Her monograph, Reading Christine de Pizan in England, 1399-1929, is forthcoming.Sally Holloway is Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in History at Oxford Brookes University. She completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2013, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is currently converting the thesis into a book on romantic love in Georgian England. Recent articles include '"You know I am all on fire": Writing the Adulterous Affair in England, c. 1740-1830', Historical Research 89 (2016), pp. 317-39, and with Alice Dolan, a special issue of the journal Textile on 'Emotional Textiles'. Sally is an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary, University of London. In 2016 she was an Early Career International Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.Sarah Randles is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Researcher in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. She was formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her current research project explores the relationship between materiality and the emotions of pilgrimage and sacred place, focusing on the relics and other aspects of material culture in Chartres Cathedral. She has also published on medieval and later textiles, supernatural beliefs and their attendant practices, and on medievalism in Australia.

...constantly challenges the reader to consider yet another perspective on what thinking with materiality might do for the emotions scholar. It is interesting as a whole, but it is also a collection that has produced some essays of remarkable quality, a pleasure to read.

• Stephanie Downes, Sally Holloway & Sarah Randles: Introduction 1: Stephanie Downes, Sally Holloway & Sarah Randles: A Feeling for Things: Past & Present 2: Elina Gertsman: Matter Matters 3: Sarah Randles: Signs of Emotion: Pilgrimage Tokens from the Cathedral of Notre Dame of Chartres 4: Helen M. Hickey: Capturing Christ's Tears: La Sainte Larme in Medieval and Early Modern France 5: Hilary Davidson: Holding the Sole: Shoes, Emotions, and the Supernatural 6: Lara Farina: Get a Grip? The Tactile Object of Handlyng Synne 7: Diana G. Barnes: Emotional Debris in Early Modern Letters 8: John Gagne: Emotional Attachments: Iron Hands, their Makers, and their Wearers, 1450-1600 9: Sally Holloway: Materialising Maternal Emotions: Birth, Celebration and Renunciation in England c. 1688-1830 10: Susan Broomhall: Dirk Hartog's Sea Chest: An Affective Archaeology of VOC Objects in Australia 11: Alicia Marchant: Romancing the Stone: (E)motion and the Affective History of the Stone of Scone 12: Carolyn Steedman: Lord Mansfield's Voices. In The Archive, Hearing Things 13: Joanne Begiato: Afterword: Moving Objects: Emotional Transformation, Tangibility, and Time-Travel Bibliography