What do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a myriad of sources provides clues to the central role emotions played in medieval society. In this work, historians Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy reveal the many and nuanced experiences of emotion during the Middle Ages. From the demonstrative shame of a saint to a nobleman's fear of embarrassment, they show how emotions changed and developed, enabling us to better understand our own social outlooks and customs.;The Christianization of emotion (third to fifth centuries) -- The city of desire : the monastic laboratory -- Emotions for a Christian society : the Frankish world (fifth to tenth centuries) -- The zenith of monastic affection -- The ethics and aesthetics of aristocratic emotions in feudal society (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) -- The emotive nature of man (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) -- The politics of princely emotion (twelfth to fifteenth centuries) -- The mystical conquest of emotion (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) -- Common emotion (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries).