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Title Violence and emotions in early modern Europe / edited by Susan Broomhall and Sarah Finn
Published London : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge research in early modern history
Routledge research in early modern history.
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
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
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 4, 2015)
SUBJECT Europa gnd
Subject Violence -- Europe -- History
Emotions -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Emotions -- Social aspects
Social conditions
Violence
Gewalt
Gefühl
Geweld.
Sociale aspecten.
Våld -- Europa -- historia.
Känslor -- Sociala aspekter.
SUBJECT Europe -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045753
Europe -- History -- 1492-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045693
Europe -- History -- 1648-1789. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045700
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Broomhall, Susan, editor
Finn, Sarah, 1977- editor.
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