Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700

368 Pages·2016·10.48 MB·English

by  Jennifer Spinks

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Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the
Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700
Edited by
JENNIFER SPINKS
CHARLES ZIKA
Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
Series Editors
David   Lemmings
Professor of History
University of Adelaide, Australia
William   M. Reddy
William T. Laprade Professor of History
Duke University, USA
Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions includes work that rede-
fi nes past defi nitions of emotions; re-conceptualizes theories of emotional
‘development’ through history; undertakes research into the genesis and
effects of mass emotions; and employs a variety of humanities disciplines
and methodologies. In this way it produces a new interdisciplinary history
of the emotions in Europe between 1100 and 2000.
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Jennifer Spinks • Charles Zika
Editors
Disaster, Death and
the Emotions in the
Shadow of the
Apocalypse,
1400–1700
Editors
Jennifer Spinks Charles Zika
The University of Manchester The University of Melbourne
United Kingdom Australia
Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
ISBN 978-1-137-44270-3 ISBN 978-1-137-44271-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-44271-0
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RAISE FOR ISASTER EATH AND THE
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MOTIONS
‘Despite the doom-laden title, this book is an uplifting read focusing as
it does on human responses to adversity. It cleverly weaves together the
History of the Emotions with environmental history, and its carefully-
researched essays, covering a wide range of topics, make fascinating use of
a variety of documentary and visual sources.’
— Penny Roberts, Professor and Director of the Centre for Arts Doctoral
Research Excellence, University of Warwick, UK
‘This collection of outstanding contributions by leading scholars from three
continents ranges widely across the disciplines of European art history, lit-
erature, music, cultural history, religion, politics, and society. Emerging
from Melbourne University’s Centre for the History of Emotions, it more
than lives up to the expansive promise of its title.’
—Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History,
University of Pennsylvania, USA
‘This collection of essays examines the range of early-modern Europeans’
emotional responses to nature’s trials. Drawing upon perspectives from
history and the history of art, literature, and religion, the book takes read-
ers on a grand, but lamentable tour of the socio-cultural forces that left
traditional Europe exposed to the elements.’
— Philip M. Soergel, Professor and Chair of the Department
of History, University of Maryland, USA
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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This edited collection emerged from a collaborative 2012 exhibition proj-
ect at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and an accompanying
academic symposium. Section II of the Introduction to this volume pro-
vides details of these events and the essential contributions made by many
individuals. The project was funded initially by an Australian Research
Council Discovery Project, and received support in its later stages from
the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of
Emotions 1100–1800. We would particularly like to acknowledge the
long-standing involvement of Susan Broomhall in the original project on
disasters and print culture, and the particular assistance and engagement of
colleagues in the University of Melbourne node of the Australian Research
Council Centre. The series editors and staff at Palgrave deserve special
mention, as do our research assistants, Michael Pickering and Charlotte-
Rose Millar, whose diligence and unfl agging support made our editorial
task so much easier. The contributors to the volume have also been excel-
lent to work with, and extremely patient through the different stages of
the project. Finally, we thank Ted Colless and Stasia Zika for their constant
support.
We acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council Centre
of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100–1800 (CE110001011)
for the compilation of this volume.
Jennifer   Spinks
Charles   Zika
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction: Rethinking Disaster and Emotions,
1400–1700 1
Jennifer Spinks and Charles Zika
Part I C onceptualising Disaster, Providence, Apocalypse
and Emotions 1 9
2 Deciphering Divine Wrath and Displaying Godly
Sorrow: Providentialism and Emotion in Early
Modern England 2 1
Alexandra Walsham
3 Disastro, Catastrophe, and Divine Judgment: Words,
Concepts and Images for ‘Natural’ Threats to Social
Order in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 4 5
Gerrit Jasper Schenk
4 Disaster, Apocalypse, Emotions and Time in 
Sixteenth-Century Pamphlets 6 9
Charles Zika
ix
x CONTENTS
Part II Violent Upheaval: Unleashed Emotions 9 1
5 Fear, Indignation, Grief and Relief: Emotional Narratives
in War Chronicles from the Netherlands (1568–1648) 9 3
Erika Kuijpers
6 Civil War Violence, Prodigy Culture and Families in the 
French Wars of Religion 113
Jennifer Spinks
7 Experiencing the Thirty Years’ War: Autobiographical
Writings by Members of Religious Orders in Bavaria 1 35
Sigrun Haude
8 ‘Jangled the Belles, and with Fearefull Outcry, Raysed
the Secure Inhabitants’: Emotion, Memory and Storm
Surges in the Early Modern East Anglian Landscape 155
Dolly MacKinnon
Part III V isual Media and Circulation: Manufacturing and
Managing Emotions 175
9 God’s Executioners: Angels, Devils and the Plague in 
Giovanni Sercambi’s Illustrated Chronicle (1400) 177
Louise Marshall
10 Desire After Disaster: Lot and His Daughters 201
Patricia Simons
11 Framing Warfare and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century
Netherlandish Prints: The C lades Judaeae Gentis Series
by Maarten van Heemskerck 225
D agmar Eichberger
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12 The Destruction of Magdeburg in 1631: The Art of 
a Disastrous Victory 2 47
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Part IV News Reporting: Reading and Mobilising Emotions 2 73
13 Ballads of Death and Disaster: The Role of Song in 
Early Modern News Transmission 2 75
Una McIlvenna
14 Dragged to Hell: Family Annihilation and Brotherly
Love in the Age of the Apocalypse 2 95
David Lederer
15 Divine, Deadly or Disastrous? Diarists’ Emotional
Responses to Printed News in Sixteenth-Century France 3 21
Susan Broomhall
16 Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London: Trauma
and Emotion, Private and Public 3 41
Stephanie Trigg
Index 357