Rafał Borysławski is an Associate Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland.Alicja Bemben is an Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland.

• Introduction: Emotions as the Engines of ChangeRafał Borysławski and Alicja BembenPart 1: Narrating Past Emotions1. The Wonders of Creation: The Affective Poetics of Alterity in the Old English Letter of Alexander to AristotleJacek Olesiejko2. Nice Guys Finish Last: Emotional Leaders and Political Action in Selected ÍslendingasögurSantiago Barreiro and Julián Valle3. The Deceit of Emotions: Henry More’s Conception of Passion and Religious Polemic in Early Modern EnglandZoya Metlitskaya4. How British Lyric Poetry Came to be Angry After Three Hundred Years of Stiff Upper LipsMichael Joseph5. Empathy, "Empathic Unsettlement," and Human-Animal Relationships in Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller and J.M. Coetzee’s DisgracePaulina GrzędaPart 2: Emotive Histories, Emotional Historiographies6. Cicero and His Daughter Tullia: Grief and History in a Latin Epistolary CollectionLinda McGuire7. "They Could Not Let Her Go with Dry Eyes . . .": Manifesting Emotions in the Encomium Emmae ReginaeRafał Borysławski8. Worlds Emerge, Worlds Collapse: Traumatic Affect in Medieval Historiography and the Reception of Sturlunga Saga in the Twentieth CenturyMariusz Mayburd9. Controlling Female Emotions. Monstrous Births and Maternal Imagination in IcelandArngrímur Vídalín10. Disgust and Parasites in Nineteenth-Century Science and FictionJustyna JajszczokPart 3: Emotions Shaping History11. The Guilt, the Trial, and the Execution: The Case of the Cross at Cheapside RevisitedJakub Basista12. Love, Actually . . . Pricing Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century GreeceDimitra Vassiliadou13. Melancholia in Contemporary Spain: Digging Up a Past That Did Not Pass AwayRafael Pérez Baquero14. Persecutory Anxiety and the Fear of Death as Emotional Qualities of the Cultural Revolution in ChinaJun Lu15. Historical Understanding—A Romance of Many DimensionsAlicja Bemben