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

Introduction: Rethinking Disaster and Emotions, 1400-1700 by Jennifer Spinks and Charles Zika. - PART I: CONCEPTUALISING DISASTER, PROVIDENCE, APOCAPOCALYPSE AND EMOTIONS. -  1. Deciphering Divine Wrath and Displaying Godly Sorrow: Providentialism and Emotion in Early Modern England by Alexandra Walsham. - 2. Disastro, Catastrophe, and Divine Judgement: Words, Concepts and Images for ‘Natural’ Threats to Social Order in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Gerrit Schenk. - 3. Disaster, Apocalypse, Emotions and Time in Sixteenth-Century Pamphlets by Charles Zika. - PART II: VIOLENT UPHEAVAL: UNLEASHED EMOTIONS. -  4. Fear, Indignation, Grief and Relief: Emotional Narratives in War Chronicles from the Netherlands (1568-1648) by Erika Kuijpers. - 5. Civil War Violence, Prodigy Culture and Families in the French Wars of Religion by Jennifer Spinks. - 6. Experiencing the Thirty Years’ War: Autobiographical Writings by Members of Religious Orders in Bavaria by Sigrun Haude. - 7. ‘Jangled the Belles, and with fearefull outcry, raysed the secure Inhabitants’: Emotion, Memory and Storm Surges in the Early Modern East Anglian Landscape by Dolly MacKinnon. - PART III: VISUAL MEDIA AND CIRCULATION: MANUFACTURING AND MANAGING EMOTIONS. - 8. God’s Executioners: Angels, Devils and the Plague in Giovanni Sercambi’s Illustrated Chronicle (1400) by Louise Marshall. - 9. Desire after Disaster: Lot and his Daughters by Patricia Simons. - 10.  Framing Warfare and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Prints: The Clades Judaeae Gentis Series by Maarten van Heemskerck and Dagmar Eichberger. - 11. The Destruction of Magdeburg in 1631: The Art of a Disastrous Victory by Jeffrey Chipps Smith. - PART IV: NEWS REPORTING: READING AND MOBILISING EMOTIONS. - 12. Ballads of Death and Disaster: The Role of Song in Early Modern News Transmission by Una McIlvenna. - 13. Dragged to Hell: Family Annihilation and Brotherly Love in the Age of the Apocalypse by David Lederer. - 14. Divine, Deadly or Disastrous? Diarists’ Emotional Responses to Printed News in Sixteenth-Century France by Susan Broomhall. - 15. Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London. Trauma and Emotion, Private and Public by Stephanie Trigg