modern historiography (‘a rather recent historiographical fiction’ (p. 158), as it is styled here), as well as a dominant trope in the modern historical record, but this separation was an affective manoeuvre, a valorisation of a politics of masculinity conceived narrowly, to serve political interests conceived equally narrowly. It is an idea that still has political currency (see the unsupportable reason-boosting of Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, for example). This has not only misrepresented medieval life by implication but modern life too, and it is in this observation that the real importance of works such as Boquet and Nagy’s becomes clear. Here, the ‘evolution of scholarly thought towards a natural philosophy of the emotions’, of the human as an ‘emotive creature endowed with reason’ began in the twelfth century (p. 135), with a ‘science of emotion’ in place by the end of the 13th. Human beings are deeply complex creatures, deeply subject to change over time, at the level of the body, the brain, and of culture. There is nothing more complex about modern human beings or their ideas than about medieval human beings, and explaining what differences there are over time, in feeling, in expression, in bodily and affective practices, in epistemology, cannot be carried out through the mode of increasing complication. Beautifully rich and elegant as a work of medieval history, this work should also prompt modernists to check their assumptions and their starting points. Truly foundational, Medieval Sensibilities is an ideal introduction for those who wish to embrace ‘the infinite cultural malleability of the strange, affective material from which we are made’ (p. 248).

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书评：Suraiya Faroqhi，奥斯曼帝国和莫卧儿帝国：现代早期世界的社会史

现代史学（“相当近期的史学小说”（第 158 页），正如这里所描述的那样），以及现代历史记录中的主要比喻，但这种分离是一种情感上的操纵，是对男性气质政治的评价狭隘地设想，为同样狭隘地设想的政治利益服务。这是一个仍然具有政治价值的想法（例如，请参阅平克的启蒙运动的不可支持的理由推动）。这不仅隐含地歪曲了中世纪的生活，也歪曲了现代生活，正是在这种观察中，诸如 Boquet 和 Nagy 之类的作品的真正重要性变得清晰起来。在这里，“学术思想向情感自然哲学的演变”，人类作为“具有理性的情感生物”的演变始于 12 世纪（第 135 页），到 13 月底，“情感科学”到位。人类是非常复杂的生物，随着时间的推移，在身体、大脑和文化的层面上，都会发生深刻的变化。现代人或他们的思想没有比中世纪人更复杂的了，解释随着时间的推移，在感觉、表达、身体和情感实践、认识论方面的差异，不能通过增加的并发症。作为中世纪历史的作品，这部作品精美而丰富，也应该促使现代主义者检查他们的假设和出发点。对于那些希望接受“构成我们的奇异情感材料的无限文化延展性”（第 248 页）的人来说，中世纪的情感是真正的基础。