Piroska Nagy, a professor of medieval history at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and was an International Partner Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions from 2014 to 2017. Piroska has previously taught at the Université Paris I, the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Université de Rouen and the Central European University. She is author of Le don des larmes au Moyen Age. Un instrument spirituel en quête d’institution, Ve–XIIIe siècle (Paris: Albin Michel, 2000) and co-author, with Damien Boquet, of Medieval Sensibilities: A History of Emotions in the Middle Ages (Polity Press, 2018), Medioevo sensibile: Una storia delle emozioni (secoli III–XV) (Carocci, 2018) and Sensible Moyen Âge. Une histoire des émotions dans l'Occident médiéval (Le Seuil, 2016). With Damien Boquet in 2006, she launched the first French research project on the history of emotions, EMMA, EMotions in the Middle Ages: and coedited with D. Boquet Émotions médiévales (2007); Le sujet des émotions au Moyen Âge (2009); Politiques des émotions au Moyen Âge (2010); La chair des émotions au Moyen Âge (2011); Sensible Moyen Âge: Une histoire des émotions dans l'Occident médiéval (Paris: Seuil, 2015).
Her current research explores the relation between collective religious emotions, events and change in the West during the time of the crusades (11–13C) and medieval affective anthropology, especially embodied religious emotions, experience and charisms.
Contact
npmediumaevum@gmail.com
UQAM Staff Profile
Selected Publications
Books
Boquet, D. and P. Nagy. Medieval Sensibilities: A History of Emotions in the Middle Ages. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2018. Translated by R. Shaw.
Boquet, D. and P. Nagy. Medioevo sensibile: Una storia delle emozioni (secoli III–XV). Rome: Carocci, 2018.
Edited Book
Cohen-Hanegbi, N. and P. Nagy, eds. Pleasure in the Middle Ages (International Medieval Research). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2018.
Nagy, P. ‘L’émotion au Moyen Âge: un âge de raison’. In Histoire des émotions, edited by Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine, Georges Vigarello, pp. 130–38. Vol. I : De l’Antiquité aux Lumières. Paris: Seuil, 2016.
Journal Issue
Boquet, D. and P. Nagy, eds. 'Histoire intellectuelle des émotions de l’Antiquité à nos jours', special issue, L'Atelier du Centre de Recherches Historiques 16 (2016). Online only.
Book Chapters
Nagy, P. ‘The Power of Medieval Emotions and Change : From Theory to the Unexpected Use of Spiritual Texts’. In Tears, Sighs and Laughter Expressions of Emotions in the Middle Age, edited by Per Förnegård, Erika Kihlman, Mia Åkestam, Gunnel Engwall, p.p. 13–39. Stockholm, Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 2017.
Nagy, P. (with N. Cohen-Hanegbi). ‘Pleasure in the Middle Ages: An Introduction’. In Pleasure in the Middle Ages, edited by N. Cohen-Hanegbi and P. Nagy, pp. xi–xxiii. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2018.
Nagy, P. ‘History of Emotions’. In Debating New Approaches of History, edited by P. Burke and M. Tamm, p.p. 189–216. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
Journal Articles
Nagy, P. ‘L'historien des émotions de l'autre côté du miroir ? Expérience affective dans la vita de Lukarde d'Oberweimar’. Vinculos de Historia 4 (2015): 91–105. http://www.vinculosdehistoria.com/index.php/vinculos/article/view/152
Nagy, P. (with D. Boquet). ‘Introduction’. Une histoire intellectuelle des émotions de l’Antiquité à nos jours, edited by D. Boquet and P. Nagy. Ateliers du Centre de Recherches Historiques 16 (2016). Online only: https://acrh.revues.org/6720
Nagy, P. (with D. Boquet). ‘Per una storia diversa delle emozioni’. Rivista Storica Italiana 128.2 (2016): 481–520.
Nagy, P. ‘Collective Emotions, History Writing and Change: The Case of the Pataria (Milan, Eleventh Century)’. Emotions: History, Culture, Society 2.1 (2018): 132–52.
Nagy, P. (with D. Boquet), ‘Medieval Sciences of Emotions in the 11th–13th Centuries : An Intellectual History’. Osiris 31 (2016): 21–45.
Nagy, P. (with J. Pichette). ‘Les fous du roi dans un monde de pions’. La dictature du rire. Parts d’ombre de l’humour, Revue Liberté 316 (2017): 36–38.
Ongoing Collaboration
December 2017: Elected to the Council of the Society for the History of Emotions.
Selected Presentations
Lecture: ‘Faire de l’histoire, une vie sensible dans la cité’, Institut d’Histoire, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRI), Brasil, 14 June 2018.
Plenary: at the conference Do espirito e do corpo, L’émergence des sciences médiévales des émotions aux 11e–13e siècles: une histoire intellectuelle UNESP, Franca, Brasil, 5 June 2018.
Conference Paper: 'Religious Emotions and Eleventh-Century Church Reform at the Heart of Social Change of Europe; GMU History of Emotions Conference, George Mason University, Springfield, USA, 2 June 2018. Organised a panel, and chaired another.
Invited seminar: 'Mobilisation et émotions : l’expérience patarine à Milan (XIe s.)', Collège de France, Paris, France, 15 May 2018.
Coorganisation and paper: 'Émotion, action et communauté dans le mouvement patarin. Le témoignage de Landulf Senior (1075–1085)', Conceptions et usages historiques des émotions collectives, du Moyen Âge à nos jours, Workshop at Université d’Aix-Marseille, TELEMME, 15 November 2017.
Conference Paper: 'Émotions, événement et pouvoir. Lire la Pataria milanaise (1056–1075)', workshop on 'Emotion and Culture in the Middle Ages', Université de Genève, Switzerland, 27 May 2017.
Lecture: 'L’Émotion de l’événement ou le peuple mis en scène. La Pataria à Milan, XIe siècle', Conférence at l’Institut d’Études Médiévales, Université de Fribourg Suisse, 29 May 2017.
Conference Paper: ‘Power and Powerful Emotions in Milanese Pataria, 1056–1066’, CHE/York conference ‘Powerful Emotions/ Emotions and Power c.400–1850’ conference, University of York, UK, 28‒29 June 2017
Seminar: 'Hors de l’amour, point de salut : les transformations du XIIe siècle', seminar L’Amour dans la culture et la société occidentales, Concordia University, 18 November 2016.
Seminar: 'Un Moyen Âge d’émotions', Séminaire de Recherche en Histoire médiévale animé par M. Ostorero, Université de Lausanne, 25 April 2016.
Seminar: 'L’émergence des sciences médiévales des émotions aux XIIe-XIIIe siècles: Une histoire intellectuelle', Archives Jean Piaget – Séminaire interdisciplinaire: Émotion et intelligence, Université de Genève, Faculté de Psychologie, 6 April 2016.
Seminar: 'Des émotions aux sensibilités. Débats autour de l’histoire des affects', séminaire animé avec Pascal Bastien, Groupe de Recherche en Histoire des Sociabilités, UQAM, Montréal, 24 February 2016.
Lecture: 'A History of Emotions in the Medieval West', University of Toronto, Centre of Medieval Studies, 11 February 2016.
Invited speaker: 'Quelle histoire affective pour l’Occident chrétien médiéval?', conférence inaugurale au colloque international Les Émotions de Dieu. Attributions, revendications, appropriations (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Faculté de Théologie Protestante, Montpellier, 23 June 2015.
Seminar: 'Les formes de l'incarnation émotionnelle, XIIIe-XIVe siècles: la « mystique féminine', EHESS, Paris, séminaire Histoire du genre, 13 April 2015.
Seminar: 'Sensibilités et émotions: quelle histoire?', Atelier, EHESS, Paris – avec D. Boquet, H. Mazurel et Q. Deluermoz, 3 April 2015.
Seminar: 'La conversion affective de l’Occident médiéval', EHESS, Paris, 25 March 2015.
Seminar: ‘Quelle Histoire Affective de l'Occident Médiéval?’, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, 17 March 2015.
Seminar: ‘L'émotion Médiévale et la Construction du Changement Historique’, EHESS, Paris, France, 18 March 2015.
Seminar: ‘Incarnations émotionnelles: la Célébration de Noël par François d’Assise à Greccio’, Séminaire ‘Economie, société et culture au Moyen Age’, Aix Marseille Université, France.
Public Lecture: ‘A Woman of Passion, or the Powerful Emotions of Lukardis of Oberweimar (d.1309)’, USyd, 18 November 2014.
Workshop: ‘Emotions Work in the Historical Past’, The University of Melbourne, 13 November 2014.
Public Lecture: ‘Making an Emotional Body: Christmas in Greccio according to the Via prima of Francis of Assisi by Thomas of Celano’, UMelb, 11 November 2014.
Postgrad Seminar Guest Speaker: organised by Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Monash University, 7 November 2014.
Lecture: 'L'Emotions in the Liber (passus priores) of Angela da Foligno. A religious use of affectivity in Franciscan female spirituality', by Piroska Nagy (PI) at Yarra Theological Union, Box Hill, University of Divinity, Melbourne, 5 November 2014 (organised by CHE Associate Investigator Constant Mews (Monash University).
Seminar: ‘Emotional Middle Ages: A Cultural History’, The University of Western Australia, 29 October 2014.
Public Lecture: ‘Birth of Emotional Communities, or the Power of Emotional Communion in the Medieval West’, UWA, 27 October 2014.
