Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Publisher's acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction: violence and emotions in early modern Europe; PART 1 Order and disorder; 1 Emotions in the heart of the city: crime and its punishment in Renaissance Italy; 2 Violence, anger and dishonour in sixteenth-century broadsheets from the collection of Johann Jakob Wick; 3 Murder and misericordia: reconstructing violent death and emotion in the Roman Campagna in the seventeenth century; PART 2 Bodies and souls.
10 Propaganda in the English Civil Wars: designing emotions to divide a nation11 A 'Protestant' approach to colonization as envisaged in John Lockman's martyrology (1760); Select bibliography; Index.
4 'Big mouth, big belly, fat pig!': tumults and troublemakers in the sixteenth-century Paris Hôtel-Dieu5 Miracles and misery: nuns' narratives of psychic and spiritual violence in sixteenth-century France; 6 Devotional violence and emotional governance in a seventeenth-century French female religious house; 7 Violence in medical treatment in early modern Europe; PART 3 Textual affect and effect; 8 Violent language in early fifteenth-century Italy: the emotions of invectives; 9 Nostradamus and the res mirabilia: between nature's intelligence and the Word of God.