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

• Superior document: Presenting the past : central issues in Medieval and early modern studies across the disciplines, v. 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Van Deusen, Nancy; Koff, Leonard Michael.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction: Mobs /; Canetti’s “Biology” of the Crowd: Contexts and Instances /; The Rage of Heraclitus: Reflections on the Difficult Relationship between the Philosopher and the Masses /; Armies as Mobs in the Early Middle Ages /; Assembled in the Presence of God: Majestic Perseverance and the Cantus Coronatus /; Nationes and Other Bonding Groups at Late Medieval Central European Universities /; Picturing and Promoting New Identities: The Medieval University at Paris and its “Nations” /; Communities, Crowd-Theory, and Mob-Theory in Late-Fourteenth Century English History Writing and Poetry /; Boccaccio’s Mobs: Religious Devotion, Xenophobia, and Fama in Three Decameron Novelle /; The Way Many Aspired to the Eloquence of the Few: The Neo-Latin Colloquium /; Preaching to the Mob: Space, Ideas, and Persuasion in Renaissance Florence /; The Signs—and Bells—of Mass Pilgrimage /; Philip II’s Entry into Zaragoza in 1585: A Theater of Power or Contestation? /; The People Submissive, The People Rebellious /; A Riot, a Harangue, and a (Failed) Uprising: Three Scenes from Nineteenth-Century Operas /; The Hourglass Figure in Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi [Th e Betrothed]: Multiplicities in Flux, Spatial Form, and the Milanese Bread Riots of 1628 /; Arthur Miller’s The Crucible: Witchcraft and Mob Hysteria in America /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283356759; 9786613356758; 9004216820
• ISSN: 1875-2799
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Nancy van Deusen, Leonard Michael Koff.

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.