Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Publisher’s acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on contributors......Page 14
Introduction: violence and emotions in early modern Europe......Page 18
PART 1 Order and disorder......Page 36
1 Emotions in the heart of the city: crime and its punishment in Renaissance Italy......Page 38
2 Violence, anger and dishonour in sixteenth-century broadsheets from the collection of Johann Jakob Wick......Page 54
3 Murder and misericordia: reconstructing violent death and emotion in the Roman Campagna in the seventeenth century......Page 76
PART 2 Bodies and souls......Page 94
4 ‘Big mouth, big belly, fat pig!’: tumults and troublemakers in the sixteenth-century Paris Hôtel-Dieu......Page 96
5 Miracles and misery: nuns’ narratives of psychic and spiritual violence in sixteenth-century France......Page 114
6 Devotional violence and emotional governance in a seventeenth-century French female religious house......Page 128
7 Violence in medical treatment in early modern Europe......Page 144
PART 3 Textual affect and effect......Page 160
8 Violent language in early fifteenth-century Italy: the emotions of invectives......Page 162
9 Nostradamus and the res mirabilia: between nature’s intelligence and the Word of God......Page 176
10 Propaganda in the English Civil Wars: designing emotions to divide a nation......Page 190
11 A ‘Protestant’ approach to colonization as envisaged in John Lockman’s martyrology (1760)......Page 202
Select bibliography......Page 220
Index......Page 226