Introduction, Tovi Bibring, Hilla Karas, Dafna Nissim and Bar Leshem (Bar-Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Haifa University, Israel) 1. Not a Shepherds' Game: Fearing the Bloody Wedding Night, Tovi Bibring (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) 2. Fear and Awe: Visualization of Marsyas' Punishment in Renaissance Art, Bar Leshem (Haifa University, Israel ) 3. Compassion and Anger: The Visual and Textual Representation of the 'Martyrdom' of Simon of Trent in Hartmann Schedel's World Chronical, Volker Hille (University of Frankfurt, Germany) 4. Disciplining Emotions around the Table: Feast Scenes in The Decameron, Dafna Nissim (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) 5. On Envy and Its Consequences: A Study of Fox Fables by Berechiah ha-Nakdan, Revital Refael-Vivante (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) 6. The Aesthetic of Music in Early Medieval China: Ruan Ji and Music as Therapy of Emotions, Elisa Levi Sabattini (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 7. The Emotional Discipline and Life Strategies of the Lombard Moneylenders in the Low Countries, 13th-17th Centuries, Myriam Greilsammer (Bar-Ilan University) 8.

The Forest and Sovereignty: Emotional Configurations and Human-Animal Transitions in Bisclavret by Marie de France, Cristina Álvares (CEHUM) 9. On the Melancholy of the Shechinah: The Role of Myth as a Collective Vehicle for the Expression and Processing of Emotions; On the Suffering of the Shechinah in Light of Freudian Melancholy, Ayelet Naeh (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) 10. The Silence of Family Honour and the Voice of Gender - Disciplining Emotions in Le Roman de Silence, Pieternella Avrahami (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) 11. Surprise, Fear, and the Martial Ethos: Functional Emotions and the Combative Mindbody in Jaufre, Laura Bernardazzi (University of St. Andrews, UK).