Disaster, death and the emotions in the shadow of the apocalypse 1400-1700. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jennifer Spinks [and] Charles Zika, editors.
• Editors: Spinks, Jennifer; Zika, Charles
• Contents: 1. Introduction : rethinking disaster and emotions, 1400-1700 / Jennifer Spinks and Charles Zika. -- 2. Deciphering divine wrath and displaying godly sorrow : providentialism and emotion in early modern England / Alexandra Walsham. -- 3. Disastro, Catastrophe, and divine judgment : words, concepts and images for 'natural' threats to social order in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / Gerrit Jasper Schenk. -- 4. Disaster, apocalypse, emotions and time in sixteenth-century pamphlets / Charles Zika. -- 5. Fear, indignation, grief and relief : emotional narratives in war chronicles from the Netherlands (1568-1648) / Erika Kuijpers. -- 6. Civil war violence, prodigy culture and families in the French wars of religion / Jennifer Spinks. -- 7. Experiencing the Thirty Years' War : autobiographical writings by members of religious orders in Bavaria / Sigrun Haude. -- 8. 'Jangled the belles, and with fearful outcry, raysed the secure inhabitants' : emotion, memory and storm surges in the early modern East Anglian landscape / Dolly MacKinnon. -- 9. God's executioners : angels, devils and the plague in Giovanni Sercambi's illustrated chronicle (1400) / Louise Marshall. -- 10. Desire after disaster : Lot and his daughters / Patricia Simons. -- 11. Framing warfare and destruction in sixteenth-century Netherlandish prints : the Clades Judaeae Gentis series by Maarten van Heemskerck / Dagmar Eichberger. -- 12. The destruction of Magdeburg in 1631 : the art of a disastrous victory / Jeffrey Chipps Smith. -- 13. Ballads of death and disaster : the role of song in early modern news transmission / Una McIlvenna. -- 14. Dragged to hell : family annihilation and brotherly love in the age of the apocalypse / David Lederer. -- 15. Divine, deadly or disastrous? diarists' emotional responses to printed news in sixteenth-century France / Susan Broomhall. -- 16. Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London : trauma and emotion, private and public / Stephanie Trigg.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 364 pages ), illustrations
• Subjects: 900; History; Disasters -- Psychological aspects -- History; Disasters -- Social aspects -- History; Disasters -- Religious aspects -- History; Emotions; Disasters -- Psychological aspects; Disasters -- Religious aspects; Disasters -- Social aspects; Emotions; History; European History; Cultural History; Social History; History -- Social History; Social & cultural history; Social history; History -- Europe -- General; European history; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137442710; 1137442719
• Related ISBNs: 1137442700; 9781137442703
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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