Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe / Edition 1

by Giovanni Tarantino, Charles Zika

Overview

Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, 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 live in a state of physical or internal exile as a result of religious conflict and upheaval. Drawing on new insights from history of emotions methodologies, Feeling Exclusion explores the complex relationships between communities in exile, the homelands from which they fled or were exiled, and those from whom they sought physical or psychological assistance. It examines the various coping strategies religious refugees developed to deal with their marginalization and exclusion, and investigates the strategies deployed in various media to generate feelings of exclusion through models of social difference, that questioned the loyalty, values, and trust of "others".

Accessibly written, divided into three thematic parts, and enhanced by a variety of illustrations, Feeling Exclusion is perfect for students and researchers of early modern emotions and religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367367060
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/2019
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Part 1: Belonging and Displacement, Chapter 1: Emotion, Exclusion, Exile: The Huguenot Experience during the French Religious Wars; Chapter 2: Cross-Channel Affections: Pressure and Persuasion in Letters to Calvinist Refugees in England, 1569–1570; Chapter 3: A Tearful Diaspora: Preaching Religious Emotions in the Huguenot Refuge; Chapter 4: Between Hope and Despair: Epistolary Evidence of the Emotional Effects of Persecution and Exile during the Thirty Years War; Part 2 Coping with Persecution and Exile, Chapter 5: The Embodiment of Exile: Relics and Suffering in Early Modern English Cloisters; Chapter 6: Fear and Loathing in the Radical Reformation: David Joris as the Prophet of Emotional Tranquillity, 1525–1556; Chapter 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, Chapter 8: Seventeenth-Century Quakers, Emotions and Egalitarianism: Sufferings, Oppression, Intolerance and Slavery; Chapter 9: She Suffered for Christ Jesus’ Sake: The Scottish Covenanters’ Emotional Strategies to Combat Religious Persecution (1685–1714); Part 3: "Othering" Strategies, Chapter 10: Feeling Jewish: Emotions, Identity, and the Jews’ Inverted Christmas; Chapter 11: Towards an Alien Community of Dancing Witches in Early Seventeenth-Century Europe; Chapter 12: Visual Provocations: Bernard Picart’s Illustrative Strategies in Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde; Chapter 13: Feeling Upside Down: Witchcraft and Exclusion in the Twilight of Early Modern Spain; Afterword: Emotional Communities and the Early Modern Religious Exile Experience