Mobs
An Interdisciplinary Inquiry
- Editors Nancy Deusen; Leonard Michael Koff
- Subjects: History
- Keywords: crowds; ecclesia; feast; fight; communities; law; multitude; kingship and rule
- Publication Year : 2011
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004216822
- E - ISBN : 9789004216822
- Imprint: Brill
- Collections: European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2012
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Mobs are complex, often an enigma. The topic of Mobs presented here serves as a means to address not only an important historical as well as present consideration, but to provide multiple disciplinary methods and viewpoints, bringing the past into the present.
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Preliminary Material
- pp. i–xiii
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Introduction: Mobs
- pp. 1–8 (8)
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Canetti’s “Biology” of the Crowd: Contexts and Instances
- pp. 9–39 (31)
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The Rage of Heraclitus: Reflections on the Difficult Relationship between the Philosopher and the Masses
- pp. 41–61 (21)
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Armies as Mobs in the Early Middle Ages
- pp. 63–78 (16)
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Assembled in the Presence of God: Majestic Perseverance and the Cantus Coronatus
- pp. 79–94C
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Nationes and Other Bonding Groups at Late Medieval Central European Universities
- pp. 95–115 (21)
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Picturing and Promoting New Identities: The Medieval University at Paris and its “Nations”
- pp. 117–140 (24)
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Communities, Crowd-Theory, and Mob-Theory in Late-Fourteenth Century English History Writing and Poetry
- pp. 141–164 (24)
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Boccaccio’s Mobs: Religious Devotion, Xenophobia, and Fama in Three Decameron Novelle
- pp. 165–188 (24)
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The Way Many Aspired to the Eloquence of the Few: The Neo-Latin Colloquium
- pp. 189–201 (13)
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Preaching to the Mob: Space, Ideas, and Persuasion in Renaissance Florence
- pp. 203–229 (27)
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The Signs—and Bells—of Mass Pilgrimage
- pp. 231–268 (38)
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Philip II’s Entry into Zaragoza in 1585: A Theater of Power or Contestation?
- pp. 269–284 (16)
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The People Submissive, The People Rebellious
- pp. 285–303 (19)
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A Riot, a Harangue, and a (Failed) Uprising: Three Scenes from Nineteenth-Century Operas
- pp. 305–338 (34)
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The Hourglass Figure in Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi [Th e Betrothed]: Multiplicities in Flux, Spatial Form, and the Milanese Bread Riots of 1628
- pp. 339–362 (24)
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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible: Witchcraft and Mob Hysteria in America
- pp. 363–382 (20)
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