Overview

This book examines deployments of mixed emotion in the literary and pictorial arts of early modern Europe. It consists of two parts, the first focusing on portrayals of mixed emotion in theatre, poetry, and prose, the second on forms and functions of mixed emotion in spiritual exercises centering on pictorial images, and on the heuristic and/or restorative functions of portraying mixed emotion. Contributors are Stijn Bussels, Tom Conley, Wietse de Boer, Carolin A. Giere, Barbara A. Kaminska, Graham R. Lea, Walter S. Melion, Mitchell Merback, Ruth Sargent Noyes, Bram Van Oostveldt, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bart Ramakers, Lukas Reddemann, Ludovica Sasso, Aline Smeesters, Paul J. Smith, Anita Traninger, and Elliott D. Wise.

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Author:   Karl A.E. Enenkel ,  Walter S. Melion
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   90
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004694606

ISBN 10:   9004694609
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   23 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: Motus mixti et compositi – the Portrayal of Mixed and Compound Emotions in the Visual and Literary Arts of Europe, 1500–1700  Walter S. Melion Part 1: Portraying Mixed Emotions in the Literary Arts Section A: Mixed Emotions in Dutch and Latin Drama 2 All Motion Discovers Us: Moral Discernment and the Role of the Passions in Willem van Nieulandt’s Nero (1618)  Bart Ramakers 3 Staging the In-Between: Compound, Conflicting and Shifting Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Neo-Latin Drama from the Dutch Republic  Lukas Reddemann Section B: Mixed Emotions in Neo-Latin and French Poetry 4 Between Fleeting and Compound Emotions in Neo-Latin Lyric Poetry on 'Turks': Georgius Sisgoreus’ Elegia de Sibenicensis agri vastatione  Ludovica Sasso 5 Shifting Emotions in Neo-Latin Psalm Poetry and Erotic Elegy: George Buchanan and Janus Lernutius  Carolin A. Giere 6 On Red and White Cheeks: Jakob Balde’s Poetic Ekphrases on a Triptych by Christoph Schwarz in the Light of the Scholastic Theory of the Passions  Aline Smeesters 7 Mixed Motives: the Art of Joachim Du Bellay, 1549–1558  Tom Conley Section C: Mixed Emotions in Prose Literature 8 Tears of Love and Sorrow: the Affective Regime of the European Pastoral Tradition  Anita Traninger 9 ‘How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing’: Conflicting Emotions in Rabelais and Montaigne  Paul J. Smith 10 The Troubles of Christian Perfection: Berinzaga, Gagliardi, Borromeo  Wietse de Boer Part 2: Portraying Mixed Emotions in the Visual Arts Section A: Mixed Emotions in Image-based Spiritual Exercises 11 O vos omnes: Recognition, Tragic Emotion, and the Passerby Topos in Northern European Art around 1500  Mitchell Merback 12 Mixed Emotion and Spiritual Perfection in Abraham Bloemaert’s Sylva anachoretica of 1619  Walter S. Melion 13 Spiritual Joy in the Face of Death: Compound Emotions in Texts and Images of the Martyrs of the Japan Mission  Raphaèle Preisinger 14 Materialities of Mixed Emotions and Spiritual Martyrdom between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Grand Duchy of Tuscany  Ruth Sargent Noyes Section B: Heuristic and Sanative Images of Mixed Emotions 15 Francisci chorda traxit ad se plurima corda: ‘Drawing’ the Heart’s Emotions in Jan Provoost’s Diptych of Christ Carrying the Cross  Elliott D. Wise 16 ‘Symbolic Anatomies’: Hendrick Goltzius and the Ambiguities of Early Modern Disability  Barbara A. Kaminska 17 Exploring Complex Emotions through the Portrayal of Dialogic Exchange: Pieter Lastman’s Paul and Barnabas in Lystra of 1617  Graham R. Lea 18 Between Despair and Hope: Raising Emotions with Dutch Seventeenth-Century Marine Paintings and Prints  Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt Index Nominum

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“Intersections is an eminently useful […] series that collects recent scholarly essays on topics of interest to nearly every subfield in early modern studies.” Anne Good, Reinhardt University. In: Itinerario, Vol. 35, No. 2 (August 2011), p. 106.

Author Information

Karl Enenkel is professor of Medieval-and Neo-Latin literature at the University of Münster. He has published five monographs and some hundred and fourty articles, and edited more than fourty collective volumes. Recently, he has finished a critical commented edition of Erasmus' Apophthegmata, books V-VIII, to appear in ASD published by Brill. Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, where he directed the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry between 2017 and 2023. He is the author of three monographs and a critical edition of Karel van Mander’s Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting, co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of twenty volumes, and has published more than one hundred articles.

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