Grim Look and Teeth-Gnashing: Conditions of Constructing John and Henry III’s Emotions in Chronicles and Letters (1199–1272)

This dissertation project aims to investigate and identify the different reasons and conditions for descriptions of the emotions of rulers in historiography using the example of two English kings, John and Henry III. One of the key questions is whether these descriptions allow us to draw conclusions about the habitus of a particular ruler. To this ...

Duration: 01/2018 - 12/2024