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

Charles Zika editor Jennifer Spinks editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:4th Feb '19

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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.

ISBN: 9781349684465

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 506g

364 pages

1st ed. 2016