Managing Emotion in Byzantium : Passions, Affects and Imaginings (Paperback)

1 Introduction / 2 Theorising Emotions: Methodological Tools for Research / 3 The Neighbour’s Unbearable Wellbeing: Phthonos/Envy from the Classical to the Modern Greek World / 4 Compassion and Healing in Early Byzantium / 5 Managing Affect through Rhetoric: The Case of Pity / 6 Epithet and Emotion: Reflections on the Quality of Eleos in the Mother of God Eleousa / 7 Storge: Rethinking Gendered Emotion apropos of the Virgin Mary / 8 An Early Christian Understanding of Pride / 9 The Ascetic Construction of Emotions: Lupe and Akedia in the Works of Evagrios of Pontos / 10 Katepheia: From Heroic Failure to Christian Dejection / 11 Emotional Communities and the Loss of an Individual: The Case of Grief / 12 Grief and Joy in Byzantine Art / 13 Liturgical Emotion: Joy and Complexity in a Hymn of Romanos the Melodist for Easter / 14 Apolausis: Feelings at the Juncture between Body and Mind / 15 Poetry in Emotion: The Case of Anger / 16 Power and Fear: Awe before the Emperor in Byzantium