Mobs an interdisciplinary inquiry
The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link between past and present—mobs are clearly of much importance today. The idea of mobs provides the context for all the essays and topics in this volume — from Heraclitus to the writings of Elias Canetti to the...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill
2012.
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| Colección: | Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 3. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797990806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary Material / Nancy van Deusen and Leonard Michael Koff
- Introduction: Mobs / Nancy van Deusen and Leonard Michael Koff
- Canetti’s “Biology” of the Crowd: Contexts and Instances / Leonard Michael Koff
- The Rage of Heraclitus: Reflections on the Difficult Relationship between the Philosopher and the Masses / Ben Schomakers
- Armies as Mobs in the Early Middle Ages / Bernard S. Bachrach
- Assembled in the Presence of God: Majestic Perseverance and the Cantus Coronatus / Nancy van Deusen
- Nationes and Other Bonding Groups at Late Medieval Central European Universities / Paul W. Knoll
- Picturing and Promoting New Identities: The Medieval University at Paris and its “Nations” / Charlotte Bauer
- Communities, Crowd-Theory, and Mob-Theory in Late-Fourteenth Century English History Writing and Poetry / Andrew Galloway
- Boccaccio’s Mobs: Religious Devotion, Xenophobia, and Fama in Three Decameron Novelle / Robert W. Hanning
- The Way Many Aspired to the Eloquence of the Few: The Neo-Latin Colloquium / Terence Tunberg
- Preaching to the Mob: Space, Ideas, and Persuasion in Renaissance Florence / Peter Howard
- The Signs—and Bells—of Mass Pilgrimage / Cornelia Oefelein
- Philip II’s Entry into Zaragoza in 1585: A Theater of Power or Contestation? / Teofilo F. Ruiz
- The People Submissive, The People Rebellious / Richard Taruskin
- A Riot, a Harangue, and a (Failed) Uprising: Three Scenes from Nineteenth-Century Operas / David Rosen
- The Hourglass Figure in Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi [Th e Betrothed]: Multiplicities in Flux, Spatial Form, and the Milanese Bread Riots of 1628 / Aino Anna-Maria Paasonen
- Arthur Miller’s The Crucible: Witchcraft and Mob Hysteria in America / A. Richard Sogliuzzo
- Index / Nancy van Deusen and Leonard Michael Koff.
