Research Projects

The Centre has a broad disciplinary, thematic, geographical and chronological remit. It pursues work in the history of emotions at any time and place around the world, building innovative multidisciplinary approaches.

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‘She was Fond of the Other Children’: Emotion and Emotional Attachment in Eighteenth-Century Infanticide Narratives

“More of the Heart than the Brain”: Impassioned Knowledge and the Christian Philosophy in the Renaissance and Reformation

“More of the Heart than the Brain”: Impassioned Knowledge and the Christian Philosophy in the Renaissance and Reformation

‘A Certain Correspondence': Intellectual Sociability and Emotional Community in the Eighteenth Century’

'A Certain Correspondence': Intellectual Sociability and Emotional Community in the Eighteenth Century

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A Lawful Magic: A New World of Precedent in Mabo and Shakespeare’s Late Plays

“A Literary History of Self-Government”

A Literary History of Self-Government

Affect and the child’s voice in Middle English narrative

Affect and the child's voice in Middle English narrative

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Ambiguous Boundaries: Sex Crimes and Cross-cultural Encounters in the Early Modern Mediterranean World

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An Emotional History of Plague in Early Modern England, 1631-38

Angers, indignities, and furies—constructing an emotion in late-medieval English historical writing

Angers, indignities, and furies: constructing an emotion in late-medieval English historical writing