This project documents the rousing, representation and regulation of emotion in the old Society of Jesus, the most influential and ‘emotionally ingenious’ (if not ‘intelligent’) religious order of the early modern period.
We are marshalling sources from a wide network of international colleagues on understandings and uses of ‘emotion’ by early modern Jesuits, in philosophy, rhetoric, poetry, drama, music and art. Our team has special interests in Jesuit education, psychology and ethics, and in the cultural transfer/ translation of emotion between Europe and the overseas missions, especially in Asia and the Americas.
Jesuit Emotions team
l-r: Yasmin Haskell, Makoto Harris Takao and Raphaële Garrod.
Publications
R. Garrod, ‘Senecan Catharsis In Nicolas Caussin’s Felicitas (1620): A Case Study in Jesuit Reconfiguration of Affects’. In Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions Between Europe, Asia and the Americas, edited by Yasmin Haskell and Raphaële Garrod. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2016.
R. Garrod, ‘Conceptual Eclecticism and Ethical Prescription in Early Modern Jesuit Discourses about Affects: Suárez and Caussin on Maternal Love’. In Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800 edited by Susan Broomhall, pp. 180-96. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
R. Garrod, ‘The Natural-Historical Rejuvenation of Emblematics: The Moral Pedagogy of Nicolas Caussin’s Polyhistor Symbolicus’. In Natural History in Early Modern France: Poetics of an Epistemic Genre, edited by R. Garrod, C. Murphy and P. J. Smith. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2015.
Y. Haskell, ‘Suppressed Emotions: The Heroic Tristia of Portuguese (ex-)Jesuit, Emanuel de Azevedo’, forthcoming in special issue of Journal of Jesuit Studies 3. 1 (2016), on ‘Jesuit distinctiveness’.
Y. Haskell, ‘Performing the Passions: Pierre Brumoy’s De motibus animi Between Dramatic and Didactic Poetry’. In Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions Between Europe, Asia and the Americas, edited by Yasmin Haskell and Raphaële Garrod. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2016.
Y. Haskell, ‘Arts and Games of Love: Genre, Gender and Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetry’. In Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800, edited by Susan Broomhall, pp. 225-44. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Y. Haskell, ‘In the Vineyard of Verse: The State of Scholarship on Latin Poetry of the Old Society of Jesus’, keystone article in Journal of Jesuit Studies 1 (2014): 26-46.
Y. Haskell, ‘The Passion(s) of Jesuit Latin’, for the Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Neo-Latin Studies: Macropaedia, edited by Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi, pp. 775-90. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
Y. Haskell, 'Child Murder and Child's Play: The Emotions of Children in Jakob Bidermann's Epic on the Massacre of the Innocents (Herodiados libri iii, 1622)'. International Journal of the Classical Tradition 20.3 (2013): 83-100.
Y. Haskell, 'The Anatomy of Hypochondria? Malachias Geiger’s Microcosmus hypochondriacus (Munich 1652)'. In Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period, pp. 275-300. Brepols: Turnhout, 2011.
Y. Haskell, 'Let the Mountain (Vesuvius) Come to Mahomet: The Healing Powers of Travel, Conversation, and Neapolitan "Simpatia" in Niccolo Giannettasio "Herculanean Spring"(1704)'. In Variantology 5 – Neapolitan Affairs. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2011.
Y. Haskell, ‘Early Modern Anger Management: Seneca, Ovid, and Lieven De Meyere’s De ira libri tres (Antwerp, 1694)’. International Journal of the Classical Tradition 18.1 (2011): 36-65.
Y. Haskell, 'Poetry or Pathology? Jesuit Hypochondria in Early Modern Naples'. Early Science and Medicine 12.2 (2007): 187-213.
M. H. Takao, ‘“In what storms of blood from Christ’s flock is Japan swimming?” Gratia Hosokawa and the Performative Representation of Japanese Martyrdom in Mulier Fortis (1698)’. In Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia and the Americas, edited by Y. Haskell and R. Garrod. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
