1st Edition

Feeling Exclusion Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

Edited By Giovanni Tarantino, Charles Zika Copyright 2019
310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

Feeling Exclusion: Religious Confl ict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe. Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands and... Read more

Introduction: Feeling Exclusion, Generating Exclusion

GIOVANNI TARANTINO AND CHARLES ZIKA

PART 1

Belonging and Displacement

  1. Emotion, Exclusion, Exile: The Huguenot Experience during the French Religious Wars

PENNY ROBERTS

2 Cross-Channel Affections: Pressure and Persuasion in Letters to Calvinist Refugees in England, 1569–1570

SUSAN BROOMHALL

3 A Tearful Diaspora: Preaching Religious Emotions in the Huguenot Refuge

DAVID VAN DER LINDEN

4 Between Hope and Despair: Epistolary Evidence of the Emotional Effects of Persecution and Exile during the Thirty Years War

OLE PETER GRELL

PART 2

Coping with Persecution and Exile

5 The Embodiment of Exile: Relics and Suffering in Early Modern English Cloisters

CLAIRE WALKER

6 Fear and Loathing in the Radical Reformation: David Joris as the Prophet of Emotional Tranquillity, 1525–1556

GARY WAITE

7 ‘I am contented to die’: The Letters from Prison of the Waldensian Sebastian Bazan (d. 1623) and the Anti-Jacobite Narratives of the Reformed Martyrs of Piedmont

GIOVANNI TARANTINO

8 Seventeenth-Century Quakers, Emotions and Egalitarianism: Sufferings, Oppression, Intolerance and Slavery

JOHN MARSHALL

9 She Suffered for Christ Jesus’ Sake: The Scottish Covenanters’ Emotional Strategies to Combat Religious Persecution (1685–1714)

DOLLY MACKINNON

PART 3

"Othering" Strategies

10 Feeling Jewish: Emotions, Identity, and the Jews’ Inverted Christmas

DANIEL BARBU

11 Towards an Alien Community of Dancing Witches in Early Seventeenth-Century Europe

CHARLES ZIKA

12 Visual Provocations: Bernard Picart’s Illustrative Strategies in Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde

PAOLA VON WYSS-GIACOSA

13 Feeling Upside Down: Witchcraft and Exclusion in the Twilight of Early Modern Spain

MARÍA TAUSIET

 

Afterword: Emotional Communities and the Early Modern Religious Exile Experience

NICHOLAS TERPSTRA

Biography

Giovanni Tarantino is Research Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Florence and Chair of the COST Action ‘People in Motion (1492–1923)’. His publications include Republicanism, Sinophilia and Historical Writing: Thomas Gordon (c.1691–1750) and his History of England (2012) and Lo scrittoio di Anthony Collins (1676–1729) (2007).

Charles Zika is a Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. His interests lie in the intersections of religion, emotion, visual culture, and print in early modern Europe, and his publications include The Appearance of Witchcraft: Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe (2007).