Historicising Heritage and Emotions: The Affective Histories of Blood, Stone and Land from Medieval Britain to Colonial Australia

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Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of contents List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Historicising heritage and emotions Aims of the collection Terminology Heritage Emotions and the ‘affective turn’ Historicising heritage and emotions Historicising heritage and emotion: the affective histories of blood, stone and land Blood Stone Land Conclusions Notes Part I Affective histories of blood, stone and land in Medieval and Early Modern Britain 1 Carved in stone: Engaging with the past in Medieval Orkney The Norse settlement of Orkney Inscriptions The Norse interpretation of Maeshowe The Maeshowe ‘dragon’ Notes 2 Wulfstan of Worcester’s weeping: The architecture of the Norman Conquest as a site of cross-cultural emotion Wulfstan of Worcester: probing the heritage of the ‘last English bishop’ Nostalgia, longing and the shedding of tears in late-Saxon textual heritage Developing a materiality of bodily emotions: crying in the twelfth century The advent of a Norman architectural heritage Worcester Cathedral: a convergent architectural exemplar? Performed emotions and building as multivalent heritage practice Conclusion Notes 3 John Hardyng’s Scotland: Emotional geographies and forged heritage in the fifteenth century Hardyng: inheritance, ancestry and heritage Monumental expectations and fake heritage Hardyng, Scotland and emotional geography Hardyng’s accumulations of heritage Conclusions Notes 4 Sacred memory: The Elizabethan monuments of Westminster Abbey Shaping a monumental heritage Early Modern tourism at Westminster Abbey The Westminster experience: poetic emotions The Westminster experience: heritage and memory The Russell monument and the performance of grief Conclusion Notes 5 Emotional lineages: Blood, property, family and affection in Early Modern Scotland Blood, milk and fictive ties Land and name Affection, property and family Emotional lineage and heritage: conclusion Notes 6 ‘Let me weep for such a feeling loss’: The emotional significance of Shakespeare’s heritage Notes Part II Affective histories of blood, stone and land in Australia and the Pacific 7 My heritage – it is not just about sticks and stones – it is timeless, precious and irreplaceable Notes 8 The crimson thread of medievalism: Haematic heritage and transhistorical mood in colonial Australia Notes 9 John Watt Beattie and the presentation of convict history Beattie and his collecting: the presentation of convict history Beattie’s writing Beattie’s photography Conclusions Notes 10 ‘The general softening of manners among us’: Music and the moral power of nostalgia in a colonial... Alexander Maconochie and prison reform on Norfolk Island The move from physical to psychological punishment Emotions and cultural heritage on Norfolk Island Emotional regimes and the reconfiguration of prison culture Emotions and religious heritage Epilogue Notes 11 Murdering Snow and ruling the north: The rise and fall of affective colonialism and the advent ... A crime of appalling turpitude Everyone loves a story Heritage tours to the scene of the crime Disputing the heritage site Conclusion Notes 12 Convict bloodlines: Crime, intergenerational legacies and convict heritage Height, history and heritage Height and the ex-convict household Blood, stone and land Notes 13 The Esplanade and the City Gatekeepers: Contesting the limits of urban heritage protection Place, solastalgia and emotion History of the Esplanade Threats to the Esplanade The planning process and the limits to heritage protection Analysing emotional responses Moral shock Moral outrage Looking for a scapegoat Frame alignment Conclusion Notes Bibliography Newspapers Archives and museum objects Printed primary sources Secondary sources Index