ABSTRACT
In her seminal book Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages Barbara Rosenwein uses the concept 'emotional community' to describe a group in which people adhere to the same norms of emotional expression and value - or devalue - the same or related emotion. In July 1790 Nikolai Karamzin, a twenty-three-year-old Moscow writer, was completing the Continental part of his European travels. He had already spent more than a year in Prussia, Saxony, Switzerland, and France and was finally approaching Calais to take a packet-boat for England, the land which he has 'loved from childhood with such fervour' and which was the final destination of his Grand Tour. The role of 'public images of sentiment' in the formation of individual emotional responses can be understood with the help of the concept of 'event coding', introduced by Dutch psychologists Nico Frijda and Batja Mesquita into their scheme of emotional process.
