Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile And Emotions In Early Modern Europe

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Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe. Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands and live in a state of physical or internal exile as a result of religious conflict and upheaval. Drawing on new insights from history of emotions methodologies, Feeling Exclusion explores the complex relationships between communities in exile, the homelands from which they fled or were exiled, and those from whom they sought physical or psychological assistance. It examines the various coping strategies religious refugees developed to deal with their marginalization and exclusion, and investigates the strategies deployed in various media to generate feelings of exclusion through models of social difference, that questioned the loyalty, values, and trust of "others". Accessibly written, divided into three thematic parts, and enhanced by a variety of illustrations, Feeling Exclusion is perfect for students and researchers of early modern emotions and religion. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 List of figures......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Notes on contributors......Page 12 List of abbreviations......Page 15 Introduction: Feeling exclusion, generating exclusion......Page 16 PART 1: Belonging and displacement......Page 24 1. Emotion, exclusion, exile: The Huguenot experience during the French religious wars......Page 26 2. Cross-channel affections: Pressure and persuasion in letters to Calvinist refugees in England, 1569–1570......Page 42 3. A tearful diaspora: Preaching religious emotions in the Huguenot Refuge......Page 59 4. Between hope and despair: Epistolary evidence of the emotional effects of persecution and exile during the Thirty Years War......Page 78 PART 2: Coping with persecution and exile......Page 94 5. The embodiment of exile: Relics and suffering in early modern English cloisters......Page 96 6. Fear and loathing in the Radical Reformation: David Joris as the prophet of emotional tranquillity, 1525–1556......Page 115 7. ‘I am contented to die’: The letters from prison of the Waldensian Sebastian Bazan (d. 1623) and the Anti-Jacobite narratives of the Reformed martyrs of Piedmont......Page 141 8. Seventeenth-century Quakers, emotions, and egalitarianism: Sufferings, oppression, intolerance, and slavery......Page 161 9. She suffered for Christ Jesus’ sake: The Scottish Covenanters’ emotional strategies to combat religious persecution (1685–1714)......Page 180 PART 3: “Othering” Strategies......Page 198 10. Feeling Jewish: Emotions, identity, and the Jews’ inverted Christmas......Page 200 11. Towards an alien community of dancing witches in early seventeenth-century Europe......Page 222 12. Visual provocations: Bernard Picart’s illustrative strategies in Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde......Page 248 13. Feeling upside down: Witchcraft and exclusion in the twilight of early modern Spain......Page 274 Afterword: Emotional communities and the early modern religious exile experience......Page 294 Index......Page 301