Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia.Sarah Finn completed her PhD in 2010 at The University of Western Australia. In 2013, she was a Research Associate in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe Susan Broomhall Section I: Order and disorder 1. Emotions in the Heart of the City: Crime and its Punishment in Renaissance Italy Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan 2. Violence, Anger and Dishonour in Sixteenth-Century Broadsheets from the Collection of Johann Jakob Wick Charles Zika 3. Murder and Misericordia: Reconstructing Violent Death and Emotion in the Roman Campagna in the Seventeenth Century Lisa Beaven Section II: Bodies and souls 4. ‘Big mouth, big belly, fat pig!’: Tumults and Troublemakers in the Sixteenth-Century Paris Hôtel-Dieu Lisa Keane Elliott 5. Miracles and Misery: Nuns’ Narratives of Psychic and Spiritual Violence in Sixteenth-Century France Susan Broomhall 6. Devotional Violence and Emotional Governance in a Seventeenth-Century French Female Religious House Sarah Ferber 7. Violence in Medical Treatment in Early Modern Europe Robert Weston Section III: Textual affect and effect 8. Violent Language in Early Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Emotions of Invectives Andrea Rizzi 9. Nostradamus and the res mirabilia: Between Nature’s Intelligence and the Word of God Denis Crouzet 10. Propaganda in the English Civil Wars: Designing Emotions to Divide a Nation Troy Heffernan 11. A ‘Protestant’ Approach to Colonization as Envisaged in John Lockman’s Martyrology (1760) Giovanni Tarantino Select Bibliography Index