Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generated through the religious, providential and apocalyptic frameworks that provided these events with meaning.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-10-05
Mått148 x 210 x 28 mm
Vikt628 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
Antal sidor364
Upplaga16001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137442703

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Jennifer Spinks is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research projects often concern print culture and religious identities in northern Europe, and include the co-curated exhibition project Magic, Witches and Devils in the Early Modern World. Her publications include Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany (2009).Charles Zika is Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. His research lies in the intersection of religion, emotion, visual culture and print, and recent publications include The Appearance of Witchcraft: Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe (2007), and two co-edited catalogues.

Introduction: Rethinking Disaster and Emotions, 1400-1700 by Jennifer Spinks and Charles Zika. - PART I: CONCEPTUALISING DISASTER, PROVIDENCE, APOCAPOCALYPSE AND EMOTIONS. - 1. Deciphering Divine Wrath and Displaying Godly Sorrow: Providentialism and Emotion in Early Modern England by Alexandra Walsham. - 2. Disastro, Catastrophe, and Divine Judgement: Words, Concepts and Images for ‘Natural’ Threats to Social Order in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Gerrit Schenk. - 3. Disaster, Apocalypse, Emotions and Time in Sixteenth-Century Pamphlets by Charles Zika. - PART II: VIOLENT UPHEAVAL: UNLEASHED EMOTIONS. - 4. Fear, Indignation, Grief and Relief: Emotional Narratives in War Chronicles from the Netherlands (1568-1648) by Erika Kuijpers. - 5. Civil War Violence, Prodigy Culture and Families in the French Wars of Religion by Jennifer Spinks. - 6. Experiencing the Thirty Years’ War: Autobiographical Writings by Members of Religious Orders in Bavaria by Sigrun Haude. - 7. ‘Jangled the Belles, and with fearefull outcry, raysed the secure Inhabitants’: Emotion, Memory and Storm Surges in the Early Modern East Anglian Landscape by Dolly MacKinnon. - PART III: VISUAL MEDIA AND CIRCULATION: MANUFACTURING AND MANAGING EMOTIONS. - 8. God’s Executioners: Angels, Devils and the Plague in Giovanni Sercambi’s Illustrated Chronicle (1400) by Louise Marshall. - 9. Desire after Disaster: Lot and his Daughters by Patricia Simons. - 10. Framing Warfare and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Prints: The Clades Judaeae Gentis Series by Maarten van Heemskerck and Dagmar Eichberger. - 11. The Destruction of Magdeburg in 1631: The Art of a Disastrous Victory by Jeffrey Chipps Smith. - PART IV: NEWS REPORTING: READING AND MOBILISING EMOTIONS. - 12. Ballads of Death and Disaster: The Role of Song in Early Modern News Transmission by Una McIlvenna. - 13. Dragged to Hell: Family Annihilation and Brotherly Love in the Age of the Apocalypse by David Lederer. - 14. Divine, Deadly or Disastrous? Diarists’ Emotional Responses to Printed News in Sixteenth-Century France by Susan Broomhall. - 15. Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London. Trauma and Emotion, Private and Public by Stephanie Trigg