Motus Mixti Et Compositi: The Portrayal of Mixed and Compound Emotions in the Visual and Literary Arts of Europe, 1500-1700

This book examines deployments of mixed emotion in the literary and pictorial arts of early modern Europe. It consists of two parts, the first focusing on portrayals of mixed emotion in theatre, poetry, and prose, the second on forms and functions of mixed emotion in spiritual exercises centering on pictorial images, and on the heuristic and/or restorative functions of portraying mixed emotion.

Contributors: Stijn Bussels, Tom Conley, Wietse de Boer, Carolin A. Giere, Barbara A. Kaminska, Graham R. Lea, Walter S. Melion, Mitchell Merback, Ruth Sargent Noyes, Bram Van Oostveldt, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bart Ramakers, Lukas Reddemann, Ludovica Sasso, Aline Smeesters, Paul J. Smith, Anita Traninger, and Elliott D. Wise.

Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval-and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster. He has published five monographs and well over a hundred articles, and has edited more than forty collective volumes. His latest publication is a critical edition of Erasmus’s Apophthegmata, books V-VIII (Brill, 2024).

Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University, Atlanta, where he directed the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry between 2017 and 2023. He is the author of three monographs and a critical edition of Karel van Mander’s Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting (Brill, 2023), co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of twenty collected volumes, and author of more than a hundred articles.