Mobs [electronic resource] : an interdisciplinary inquiry / edited by Nancy van Deusen, Leonard Michael Koff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Deusen, Nancy (Nancy Elizabeth)

Koff, Leonard Michael.

Series:

Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 3.

Presenting the past : central issues in Medieval and early modern studies across the disciplines, 1875-2799 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mobs--History.

Mobs.

Mobs--Europe--History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 notion of internet mobs. The essays here speak to the complex nature of the mob: its defining characteristics and the varying consequences of its behavior. Mobs as a book brings wide-ranging clarity to a topic that touches such disciplines as medieval studies, literature, musicology, theology and philosophy, history, social theory, the development of the early university, and theatre. Contributors are (in order within the volume): Leonard M. Koff, Ben Schomakers, Bernard S. Bachrach, Nancy van Deusen, Paul W. Knoll, Charlotte Bauer, Andrew Galloway, Robert W. Hanning, Terence Tunberg, Peter Howard, Cornelia Oefelein, Teofilo Ruiz, Richard Taruskin, David B. Rosen, Aino Paasonen and Richard Sogliuzzo.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-35675-9

9786613356758

90-04-21682-0

OCLC:

777548310

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004216822 DOI