ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on cultural repertoires of emotions represented in examples, as used in saints lives and miracle stories, in sermons, prayers and mirror-literature from twelfth and thirteenth century monastic communities. These texts provide fascinating insights into representations of religious beliefs, and their spiritual and social contexts. They address different audiences, but all are embedded in monastic education, pastoral practice and daily liturgical routine. They thus give insight not only into contemporary normative ideals and theological theory, but also into what the people might conceive of as everyday lived practice and the adaptation of extant cultural and emotional repertoires as modes and options that simultaneously direct and limit, but also enable people's actions, beliefs and feelings. Moreover, it is particularly these conflicts and ambiguities that provide interesting material in which to look for emotional repertoires and interrogate them for the options of their uses and possible modifications.
