The king, the crusader and the human Louis IX according to Joinville – values and emotions

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Pages: 76-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/NKXI1315

Abstract:

In Jean de Joinville’s text Vie de Saint Louis around King Louis IX’s personality several emotional communities are formed. The most important of them unifies the crusaders of the Seventh Crusade in Egypt. The values in that emotional community are related to King Louis IX’s qualities. Some smaller emotional communities are formed around the king including mainly his interlocutors. The dialogs with the king mentioned in the text and Louis IX’s exploits described by Joinville illustrate the qualities as well as the emotions of the king-crusader as a human and a saint. The personality of Louis IX possesses according to Joinville’s text specific emotionality different from the traditional stereotypes.

Keywords:

Joinville’s Vie de Saint Louis; Emotional Communities; values and emotionality

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