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

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Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700 is written by Jennifer Spinks and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137442719 (ISBN 10) and 9781137442710 (ISBN 13).

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.