Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 14001700 [Hardcover]

In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generated through the religious, providential and apocalyptic frameworks that provided these events with meaning. This collection brings together historians, art historians, and literary specialists in a cross-disciplinary collection shaped by new developments in the history of emotions. It offers a rich range of analytical frameworks and case studies, from the emotional language of divine providence to individual and communal experiences of disaster. Geographically wide-ranging, the collection also analyses many different sorts of media: from letters and diaries to broadsheets and paintings. Through these and other historical records, the contributors examine how communities and individuals experienced, responded to, recorded and managed the emotional dynamics and trauma created by dramatic events like massacres, floods, fires, earthquakes and plagues.

Introduction: Rethinking Disaster and Emotions, 1400-1700 by Jennifer Spinks and Charles Zika. - PART I: CONCEPTUALISING DISASTER, PROVIDENCE, APOCAPOCALYPSE AND EMOTIONS. -  1. Deciphering Divine Wrath and Displaying Godly Sorrow: Providentialism and Emotion in Early Modern England by Alexandra Walsham. - 2. Disastro, Catastrophe, and Divine Judgement: Words, Concepts and Images for Natural Threats to Social Order in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Gerrit Schenk. - 3. Disaster, Apocalypse, Emotions and Time in Sixteenth-Century Pamphlets by Charles Zika. - PART II: VIOLENT UPHEAVAL: UNLEASHED EMOTIONS. -  4. Fear, Indignation, Grief and Relief: Emotional Narratives in War Chronicles from the Netherlands (1568-1648) by Erika Kuijpers. - 5. Civil War Violence, Prodigy Culture and Families in the French Wars of Religion by lc%