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Violence and emotions in early modern Europe
Title
Violence and emotions in early modern Europe / edited by Susan Broomhall and Sarah Finn.
ISBN
1315689456
1317424174
1317424182
1317424190
9781315689456
9781317424178
9781317424185
9781317424192
1138854026
9781138854024
Publication
London : Routledge, 2016.
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1 online resource
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Summary
Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe examines the purposes for which specific forms of violence and particular emotional states functioned, how they operated in relation to each other, or indeed how one provoked, sustained or diminished the other. These twelve original essays demonstrate the complexities of violence and emotions and the myriad possibilities of their inter-relationships. They emphasize the great efforts that were made by early modern societies to control modes of violence and emotional regimes to achieve positive as well as negative effects, such as creating order, heali.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Broomhall, Susan. Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2015
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Routledge research in early modern history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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