Feeling Exclusion

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).

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