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...

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.