IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1713: Representations of Temperate / Intemperate Emotions in Visual Art and Literature, III: Virtues and Vices

Thursday 8 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:	Dafna Nissim, Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva
Moderator/Chair:	Gal Sofer, Department of Jewish Thought / Joyce & Irving Goldman Medical School, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Paper 1713-a	How Can We Talk about Emotions When We Discuss Virtues and Vices in Art? (Language: English) Dafna Nissim, Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva Index terms: Art History - General, Education, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Theology
Paper 1713-b	The Concepts of Legitimate and Illegitimate Laughter in Jewish Pre-Modern Writings (Language: English) Vered Tohar, Department of Literature of the Jewish People Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan Index terms: Daily Life, Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Paper 1713-c	Between Love and Lust in Some Medieval Bed Scenes (Language: English) Tovi Bibring, Department of French Culture, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Revital Refael-Vivante, Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Index terms: Gender Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Sexuality
Abstract	In medieval philosophy, excessive joy, fear, or anger were signs of an imbalance in the human organism that had implications on one's moral behavior, decision-making, and, ultimately, salvation. Medieval theological treatises, mirror for princes genre texts, fictional literature, and chivalric manuals wrote of temperance as a virtue that has to be practiced and achieved, a quality that demonstrated the balanced path between the extremes of excess and deficiency. Medieval texts and visual culture reflect many allusions to the importance of temperate emotions in realizing the virtue of moderation. This session introduces papers that examine the reciprocal affinities between emotions and behavior, and their correlation with the theological system of virtues and vices in medieval thought.