Finding emotions in medieval and early modern sources is one of the more difficult challenges currently facing historians. The task of uncovering emotions in legal records is even more fraught. Legal sources were precisely crafted to meet legal requirements and jurisdictional issues. Equally, emotions were not part of the jurisdiction of any court in the late Middle Ages or early modern period and there was no legal interest in eliciting them from litigants. Why then would we begin to think it is possible to find emotions in these legal records? This article invites social and legal historians to begin considering these questions by investigating the emotions in cases brought into the court of Chancery between 1386 and 1558.

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“Most Hevynesse and Sorowe”：在中世纪晚期和早期现代衡平法院中的情感存在

在中世纪和现代早期的资料中寻找情感是目前历史学家面临的更困难的挑战之一。在法律记录中发现情感的任务更加艰巨。法律来源经过精心设计，以满足法律要求和管辖权问题。同样，在中世纪晚期或现代早期，情感不属于任何法院的管辖范围，从诉讼当事人那里引出情感也没有法律利益。那么为什么我们会开始认为在这些法律记录中找到情感是可能的呢？本文邀请社会和法律历史学家通过调查 1386 年至 1558 年间进入衡平法院的案件中的情绪来开始考虑这些问题。