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.

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

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

Beyond Wonder: Emotions of Encounter in Jean le Long's 'Fleurs des histoires de l'Orient'

Beyond Wonder: Emotions of Encounter in Jean le Long’s Fleurs des histoires de l’Orient

Cultivating Fear and Hatred of the "Other": the development of officially sanctioned anti-Semitic and Islamophobic sentiment in Catholic Southern Europe (1500-1800).

Cultivating Fear and Hatred of the 'Other': Anti-Semitic and Islamophobic Vernacular Propaganda in Catholic Southern Europe (1500–1800)

Digging out some emotional roots of British anti-Catholicism

Digging out some emotional roots of British anti-Catholicism

Disaster and Identity: Fear, Grief, Anger, and the Development of Scottish Communal Identities

Disaster and Identity: Fear, Grief, Anger, and the Development of Scottish Communal Identities

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Ekphrastic Catharsis: Act 2, Scene 1 of Christopher Marlowe’s Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage

Emotion and Ethics in Middle English and Medievalist Drama

Emotional landscapes: English and Scottish battlefield memorials 1638-1936

Emotional Landscapes: English and Scottish battlefield memorials 1638-1936

Emotions and Exclusion: Witchcraft Imagery of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centurie

Emotions and Exclusion: Witchcraft Imagery of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century