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‘Linen bed sheet, embroidered by Anna Maria, Duchess of Derwentwater’ whose husband was executed for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1715. ‘Microscopic analysis revealed that it was sewn not in thread but in two different types of human hair, Anna Maria’s own locks intertwined with the gold hair of her recently deceased husband.’ Her emotions sewn into history - genuinely moving.
— Apr 18, 2024 05:50PM
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Unfeeling as a form of resistance!! ‘Supposed Oriental inscrutability’ as ‘an act of affective disobedience to an abusive emotional regime’, withholding, emotional unavailability. Sui Sin Par: ‘I have come from a race which is said to be the most insensible to feeling of all races, yet I look back and see myself as keenly alive to every shade of sorrow and suffering that it is almost a pain to live.’
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‘Lucien Febvre urged, in 1941, his fellow historians to ‘plunge into the darkness where psychology wrestled with history’ - la sensibilité et la vie affective. ‘He wanted historians to create histories of love and joy, of fear, hatred and cruelty’ - all the sentimental and affective dimensions. [this handbook is going to help my diss so much - W uncle].
— Apr 14, 2024 05:27PM
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Apr 18, 2024 11:33PM
Eyyy this was the Week 1 reading
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I think it’s so interesting she chose not to be buried with it though
Yeah he has a lot of those readings (+that one was in my essay!) I guess it shows how skinny the emotions history field still is. And why did u find that interesting?
How did you use it? My reading for the essay is so random atm…
Oh because she still wants this testament to her virtue as a good grieving widow to be remembered
And you see that in her not being buried with it as was be customary
I used it as one of my case studies :) I was arguing that emotional objects allow people to feel a relationship to their long dead creators or custodians and how this projection changes. The sheet was used by nuns or something at one point right - so it became about Catholicism and martyrdom to them…
So you’d see it as less about love and more about the expectations of performance and conformity for a woman in that time and place? That’s really interesting.
