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

Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking Disaster and Emotions, 1400–1700

Chapter 2 Deciphering Divine Wrath and Displaying Godly Sorrow: Providentialism and Emotion in Early Modern England

Chapter 3 Disastro, Catastrophe, and Divine Judgment: Words, Concepts and Images for ‘Natural’ Threats to Social Order in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Chapter 4 Disaster, Apocalypse, Emotions and Time in Sixteenth-Century Pamphlets

Chapter 5 Fear, Indignation, Grief and Relief: Emotional Narratives in War Chronicles from the Netherlands (1568–1648)

Chapter 6 Civil War Violence, Prodigy Culture and Families in the French Wars of Religion

Chapter 7 Experiencing the Thirty Years’ War: Autobiographical Writings by Members of Religious Orders in Bavaria

Chapter 8 ‘Jangled the Belles, and with Fearefull Outcry, Raysed the Secure Inhabitants’*: Emotion, Memory and Storm Surges in the Early Modern East Anglian Landscape

Chapter 9 God’s Executioners: Angels, Devils and the Plague in Giovanni Sercambi’s Illustrated Chronicle (1400)

Chapter 10 Desire After Disaster: Lot and His Daughters

Chapter 11 Framing Warfare and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Prints: The Clades Judaeae Gentis Series by Maarten van Heemskerck

Chapter 12 The Destruction of Magdeburg in 1631: The Art of a Disastrous Victory

Chapter 13 Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700

Chapter 14 Dragged to Hell: Family Annihilation and Brotherly Love in the Age of the Apocalypse

Chapter 15 Divine, Deadly or Disastrous? Diarists’ Emotional Responses to Printed News in Sixteenth-Century France

Chapter 16 Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700