On the 10th and the 11th of April 2017 the Research Center “History of Emotions” at the  Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin organized a workshop entitled "Evidence of Feeling: Law, Science, and Emotion in Modern European Legal Culture“. Jonas Bens participated and presented his paper „The Politics of Sentiment: Narrating Histories of Justice and Indignation“. The paper is concerned with the question of how historical narratives can transport affect and emotion and thus have the potential to produce or increase credibility for normative statements.