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.

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.

Table of 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.