The international symposium on ´Emotion & Genre’, was held in Venice in September 2022 . We met with a lovely group of colleagues from all over Europe and Canada to discuss the intersection between emotion (as a phenomenon) and genre (as a literary framework and modality). The symposium was hosted by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and formed part of a collaboration between our project and the research project ‘Modes of Modification: Variance and Change in Medieval Manuscript Culture’.