We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of affective expression in medieval mystical and devotional texts. These papers will compose a series of panels to run at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 7-10, 2025.

Potential themes could include – but are not limited to – the following:

• Experiencing divine grace/consolation

• Longing for God

• Compassionating Christ’s Passion

• Mystical ecstasies and affective transports

• External perceptions of mystics’ emotionality

• Gendered and racialized dynamics in affective devotion

• ‘Inappropriate’ devotional affects: anger, depression, indifference, etc.

• Teaching emotionality in devotional manuals and pastoral texts

• The dynamics of specific religious ‘emotional communities’

• Medieval criticisms of affective devotion

Please send abstracts of no more that 200 words with an accompanying bio to Rowan Wilson (rowan.wilson@univ.ox.ac.uk) and Amanda Langley (a.j.langley@qmul.ac.uk) by September 20, 2024.