Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

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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