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| Author | Finn, Sarah |
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| Abstract | s workshop program symposium LISA BEAvEN (La Trobe University) Murder and Misericordia: Reconstructing violent death and emotion in the Roman campagna in the seventeenth century This paper compares the emotional dialogues in two different data sets recording violence in the Roman Campagna in the seventeenth century. One is the Editti e Bandi, the official edicts issued by the papal and civic authorities of Rome, and the other the libro dei Morti, the list of the unburied bodies collected from the countryside by the confraternity of S. Maria dell’Orazione e Morte. While the official edicts link emotion and morality and concentrate on strategies to solve individual crimes and catch and punish the perpetrators, the libro dei Morti is a far more personal account of the aftermath of this violence. The confraternity operated as an affective cluster which shared a mission to collect and bury the dead. Members went to great lengths to identify the victims they collected and rather than being focussed on retribution, concentrated on the need to recognise each individual and commemorate their death. The emotion in the handwritten entries of the confraternity is one centred on misericordia, a combination of grief and compassion for those who had suffered so brutally at the hands of others. In their precise documentation of the circumstances of finding each body however, we can glimpse beyond their response the traces of emotions in the acts of violence they record. JUDITh BONzOL (The University of Sydney) harming or healing: Witchcraft, violence, and Emotions in Early Modern England In 1604 a cunning woman from Dorset was violently assaulted by members of a local gentry family. In her plea to Star Chamber, Joane Guppie claimed her assailants with some “great overgrown brambles did rente and teare the flesh from her face”, saying “they came for her bludd, and would have it before they departed”. In their defence the perpetrators said it was “a comonly reveared opinion in the country” that to “fetche bloud” from the person that had caused the illness would “cure them that be hurt”. Scratching a witch and obtaining her blood was adopted as an efficacious method by sick and debilitated people, and their families, to find some relief from their afflictions. But the desire for punishment and revenge, driven by guilt, fear, and anger, was clearly driving many of these violent attacks against witches. Instances of witch scratching was frequently recorded and commented on in court records, witchcraft pamphlets, and scholarly treatises; legal, scientific, and theological discussion examined the efficacy and morals of the practice. This paper explores the emotional complexity of the practice of witch scratching in early modern England. workshop program symposium SUSAN BROOMhALL (ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Western Australia) violent Nature: Emotions and unusual weather events in sixteenth-century french journals and diaries This paper focusses on a study of some 23 journal accounts from across sixteenth-century France, analysing their recording of violent weather events. For the majority, weather was diarised when it was perceived to be unusual in its form, extent, or in the damage it wrought. By reading accounts of disordered occurences in relation to other diarised content, the relationship between these events and others (political, local, religious and social) can be discerned. This paper investigates the emotions articulated about disastrous and violent weather events over the century, and their attribution to the phenomena itself, to God or to the people who experienced it. These reveal particular modes of thinking and expression about disaster, interpretations that appear to be shaped by locale, profession, gender, education, faith, and time period. I will also try to distinguish the capacities of journaland mémoiretype texts respectively to draw upon print literature and to articulate emotions regarding such metereological violence. DENIS CROUzET (Université de Paris-Sorbonne) Anguish and its significance in Nostradamus’ thought nostradamus’ prophetic writing seems to have an aim: to create a feeling of fear, via the murders, the massacres, the plagues, the natural disasters which are to come, all announcing God’s wrath and revealing a “guilty” humanity, full of sins. however, nostradamus’ aim, via the aid of “emotion”, is more complex than the apparent logic of terror: he aims to generate, inside each reader, the feeling of humane nothingness and as a consequence, to generate in each of them, a conversion to a God, embodying hope. What this paper seeks to demonstrate is that an emotion should never be understood as “one”, because it always aims to produce its contrary, and in nostradamus’ thought, it is to guide from anguish to serenity. ElISABETh CROUzET-PAVAn (Université de Paris-Sorbonne) Crime and its punishment: emotions in the heart of the city : Renaissance Italy At a time when, in study after study, historians of Italian cities regularly reveal the diversity, in such communities, of ways of conflict resolution, it might appear odd to direct our attention to punitive justice. Some years ago, analyses of the repressive judicial system and its successive developments serving a more authoritarian organisation of power were the subject of numerous works on Florence and Venice. While the inquisitorial proceedings, tightening of social control, and the progress of, if not the State, then at least a more coercive political power, were being widely discussed, it was logical to extend that interest to the staging of punitive ceremonies. Thus began the descriptions of tortured, dismembered bodies, exhibited at the city gates. Thus also came, in the quest to restore the éclat of torture and the character of the administration of punishment, references to gallows, stocks and gibbets erected around the city. Most importantly, information surfaced on public ceremonies and the messages they carried from powers having conceived a new ideology of justice based on social pacification. These numerous works bore fruit and thus we went from the purposely teleological initial studies, which read in the torment of the bodies and sophistication of the executions the sole progress of the State, to more nuanced interpretations. The question thus arises: why return to this subject? We may observe the very often perfunctory, even repetitious and conventional remarks reserved for the places where punishment was administered. The initial goal here is therefore to expand the earlier analyses, limited to the merely repressive aspects of the judicial process, by showing the complexity and mobility of the spatial scenarios employed, with two aims: to stop treating the urban space like a platform upon which the public authorities would mark their presence, and to understand how with those punitive ceremonies the aim was not only to trigger horror or fear. In a second series of observations, the Venetian example will highlight how punishment could also be administered in everyday locations of life and crime, which will help us to understand how complex the range of emotions involved in those punitive scenarios was. This will be followed by a conclusion discussing the range of uses for spaces in order to better understand the diverse territorialities which managed to coexist in an Italian city of the early Renaissance and the social and political uses that were made of it. PhIlIP DWyER (The University of Newcastle) Massacre and its affects, 1700-1800 Massacres have been a constant throughout history, but prior to the seventeenth century, perpetrators and witnesses to mass killings left behind accounts that were determinedly descriptive, and devoid of any sentiment or emotion. Using what have been termed “war memoirs”, accounts left by veterans of various European wars, this paper discusses how readers were meant to interpret these sometimes graphic accounts, and discusses the advent of a culture of sensibility towards the second half of the eighteenth century. That new culture allowed for a different interpretation of the consequence and aftermaths of extreme violence. LISA ELLIOTT (The University of Western Australia) “Big belly, big mouth, fat pig!”: Tantrums and tumults in the sixteenth-century hôtel-Dieu de Paris On 2 May 1505 the traditional governors of the Paris hôtel-Dieu, the Chapter of Paris, relinquished their temporal governance of the hospital to the Parlement of Paris after two decades of confrontation between themselves and the hospital’s religious staff, particularly the nuns. Attempts to reform the hospital had resulted in one lay governor being hounded to his death by the verbal abuse hurled at him by the religious staff and another finding his position untenable as the religious staff refused to acknowledge his authority over them. These confrontations, which could sometimes turn violent, did not end with the installation of eight secular governing men, but marked the beginning of fresh outbreaks of verbal and physical violence in the hospital as the new governors sought to reform the hôtel-Dieu from a refuge for all to a hospital focussed on the spiritual and physical care of the sick poor (pauvres malades). Extant documentation on the tumults within the hospital following 1505 demonstrates the emotional connection the nuns in particular had with the hospital, which was their home as well as their work place. When the governors brought in Flemish nuns to workshop program symposium assist them in implementing reforms, they suffered verbal and physical abuse from their Parisian counterparts resulting in one nun being returned to her parents, having been driven mad by the tumults and others fleeing back to their convents. The documented verbal abuse of each other, the governors and the male religious staff creates an impression of a hospital in which emotions ran high, as their traditional r |
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