ABSTRACT
This volume of primary sources focuses on the history of emotions in Europe and its empires between 1517 and 1602. The Reformation in 1517 was a key transformative moment in European history that required people to rethink the self, belief, and scientific knowledges – all of which shaped and were shaped by emotion. The study examines the subjects of the self, family and community, religion, politics and law, science and philosophy, and art and culture.
Sources include letters, diaries, legal papers, institutional records, newspapers, science and philosophical writings, literature and art from a diversity of voices and perspectives. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of history and literature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|54 pages
The Self
chapter 1|6 pages
Excerpts from the Spiritual Diary of Saint Ignatius de Loyola (1491–1556)
In Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Personal Writings, Trans. and ed. Joseph A. Munitiz and Philip Endean (London: Penguin, 1996), pp. 73–75 (2 February–10 February 1544) and 89–91 (2 March–4 March 1544)
chapter 2|4 pages
Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), de Vita Propria
Trans. and ed. Jean Stoner (New York: E. P. Dutton & co., 1930), pp. 280–284
chapter 3|7 pages
Excerpt from the Autobiography of Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582)
Trans. and ed. E. Allison Peers
chapter 4|9 pages
Selected Excerpts from the Diary of the Puritan Richard Rogers (1550?–1618) (April 1588–November 1589)
In Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries, by Richard Rogers and Samuel Ward, ed. M. M. Knappen (Chicago: The American Society of Church History, c. 1933), pp. 77–93
chapter 5|12 pages
Excerpts from the Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois (1553–1615)
(Boston: L.C. Page, 1899)
chapter 6|6 pages
Thomas Platter (1499–1582), The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a Schoolmaster of the Sixteenth Century
Trans. Elizabeth Anne Finn (London: B. Wertheim, Aldine Chambers, 1847) (Vie de Thomas Platter, 1499–1582; suivie d’extraits des mé moires de Fé lix Platter, 1536–1614 (Geneva: Fick, 1862)), pp. 87–88
chapter 7|3 pages
Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1880), pp. 3, 17–18 and 29
part 2|32 pages
Family and Community
chapter 9|5 pages
Excerpts from The Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the Time of Calvin, Volume I: 1542–1544
Ed. Robert M. Kingdon, Thomas A. Lambert and Isabella M. Watt; trans. M. Wallace McDonald (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996), pp. 52–54; 280–281 and 282–284
chapter 10|3 pages
Letters of Catherine de Medici (1519–1589), Excerpted from Lettres de Catherine de Medicis
Ed. Hector de la Ferriere-Percy, Gustave Baguenault de Puchesse, and Andre Lesort (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1880–1943), vol. 4, pp. 25 and 87, and Raimond Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux, Dépêches de m. de Fourquevaux, ambassadeur du roi Charles IX en Espagne, 1565–1572, ed. Celestin Douais (Paris, E. Leroux, 1896–1904), vol. 2, p. 405
chapter 11|4 pages
Letters of Philip II (1556–1598) to his Daughter Catalina, Duchess of Savoy (1567–1597), 10 and 27 April 1586
In Cartas de Felipe II a sus hijas, ed. Fernando Bouza (Madrid: Ediciones Akal, 1998), pp. 137–140
chapter 12|3 pages
Pierre de L’estoile (1546–1611)
Registre-Journal du règne de Henri III, eds Madeleine Lazard and Gilbert Schrenck, 6 vols (Genève: Droz, 1992), vol. 1, p. 64
chapter 13|3 pages
Jean Bodin (C. 1529/1530–1596), Six Books of the Commonwealth by Jean Bodin
Abr. and trans. M. J. Tooley (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1955), pp. 96–99
chapter 14|5 pages
Fray Luis de León (1527–1591), La Perfecta Casada
(Salamanca: En casa de Iuan Fernandez 1583), chapters XV and XVI
chapter 16|2 pages
Forged Letters of the Jews of Spain and Constantinople
In Julín de Medrano, La Silva Curiosa (Paris: Marc Orry, 1608), pp. 156–157
part 3|52 pages
Religion
chapter 17|6 pages
Martin Luther (1483–1546), ‘A Treatise on Good Works’
In Works of Martin Luther, ed. Henry Eyster Jacobs and Adolph Spaeth (Philadelphia: A.J. Holman, 1915), vol. 1, pp. 184–285
chapter 18|6 pages
Katharina Schütz Zell (1497/8–1562), ‘Letter to the Suffering Women of the Community of Kentzingen, who Believe in Christ, Sisters with me in Jesus Christ’
In Church Mother: The Writings of a Protestant Reformer in Sixteenth-Century Germany, ed. and trans. Elsie McKee (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. 50–56
chapter 19|9 pages
Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560), Apology of the [Augsburg] Confession. Article IV: of Love and the Fulfillment of the Law
Written in Latin by Philip Melanchthon, translated into German by Justus Jones (1531), and into English by Ambrose and Socrates Henkel (1851), revised by W.F. Lehmann (1854)
chapter 20|7 pages
Erasmus (1469–1536), Ecclesiastes: on the Art of Preaching
In Spiritualia and Pastoralia: Exomologesis and Ecclesiastes, ed. Frederick J. McGinness et al. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), pp. 766–767 and 798–806
chapter 21|4 pages
John Calvin (1509–1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion
Trans. Henry Beveridge (Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1846), Book I, chapter 3
chapter 22|3 pages
Martin Luther (1483–1546), ‘Melancholy’, from Luther’s Table Talk
In Luther’s Table Talk. Extracts Selected by Dr Macauley (London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d.), pp. 87–90, 100–101 and 106
chapter 23|5 pages
Ignacio de Loyola (1491–1556), ‘Spiritual Exercises’
In The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph, trans. Louis J. Puhl (United States: Newman Press, 1951), pp. 141–150
chapter 24|4 pages
John Foxe (1516/17–1587), Book of Martyrs/Acts and Monuments
(Chicago: John C. Winston Co., 1926), pp. 212–214
chapter 25|4 pages
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582), The Interior Castle
(London: Thomas Baker, 1921), chapter II
part 4|53 pages
Politics and Law
chapter 26|9 pages
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469–1527), The Prince
Trans. W. K. Marriott (London: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1908), chapters 17 and 19
chapter 27|4 pages
BartolomÉ de las Casas (1484–1566), The Tears of the Indians being an Historical and True Account of the Cruel Massacres and Slaughters of above Twenty Millions of Innocent People Committed by the Spaniards in the Islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, & C.: as also in the Continent of Mexico, Peru, & other Places of the West-Indies, to the Total Destruction of those Countries Written in Spanish by Casaus, an Eye-Witness of those Things; and Made English by J.P
(London: Printed by J.C. for Nath. Brook, 1656), pp. 27–32
chapter 28|4 pages
HernÁn CortÉs (1485–1547), Letters of CortÉs: Five Letters of Relation to the Emperor Charles V
Trans. and ed. Francis Augustus MacNutt (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1908), vol. I, pp. 237–238 and 251–252
chapter 29|5 pages
Bernal DΙ´az del Castillo (1496–1584), The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo: Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain
Trans. John Ingram Lockhart (London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1844), pp. 101–103 and 271–272
chapter 30|5 pages
Charles V (1500–1588), Abdication Speech and Ceremony of Emperor Charles V, 1555
In Prudencio de Sandoval, Historia de la Vida y Hechos del Emperador Carlos V Máximo (Antwerp: Geronymo Verdvssen, 1681), vol. 2, pp. 597–599
chapter 32|3 pages
Pedro de Ribadeneyra (1527–1611), Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England
Ed. and trans. Spencer Weinreich (Leiden, E. J. Brill, 2017), pp. 161–163
chapter 33|5 pages
Inquisitorial Trial of Bartholomeu Domingues (1589) and Summaries of other Inquisitorial Trials
In Arquivo National da Torre do Tombo (Lisbon), Inquisição, Processo n. 12,447 and Julio Serra, Procesos en la Inquisición de Toledo (1575–1610): manuscrito de Halle (Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2005), pp. 260, 318, 401–402 and 423
part 5|67 pages
Science and Philosophy
chapter 35|7 pages
Selected Excerpts from Juan Luis Vives (1493–1540), De Anima et Vita
(Basel: in officina Roberti VVinter, 1538), Book III
chapter 36|3 pages
Ambroise ParÉ (1510–1590), The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey
Translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson (London: Printed by Th: Cotes and R. Young, 1634), pp. 39–40
chapter 37|5 pages
Selected Extracts from Guy du Faur de Pibrac (1529–1584), Discours de L’ire et Comme il la Faut ModÉrer
Loris Petris, ‘Le magistrat gallican et l’Académie du Palais: le Discours de l’ire, & comme il la faut moderer de Guy Du Faur De Pibrac (étude et édition)’, Nouvelle Revue Du XVIe Siècle 22, no. 2 (2004), 57–82
chapter 38|13 pages
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), ‘Of Sadness or Sorrow’, ‘That We Laugh or Cry for the Same Thing’ and ‘Of Anger’
In Essais (London: Reeves and Turner, 1877)
chapter 39|2 pages
Juan Huarte de san Juan (1529–1588), The Examination of Mens Wits. in Whicch, by Discouering the Varietie of Natures, is Shewed for what Profession each One is Apt, and How Far He Shall Profit Therein
(London: Richard Watkins, 1594), pp. 81–83
chapter 40|13 pages
Timothy Bright (C. 1551–1616), A Treatise of Melancholie. Containing the Causes Thereof, & Reasons of the Strange Effects it Worketh in our Minds and Bodies
(London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1586), pp. 33–8, 101–110 and 135–138
chapter 41|9 pages
André du Laurens (1558–1609), A Discourse of the Preseruation of the Sight: of Melancholike Diseases; of Rheumes, and of Old Age
Trans, Richard Surphlet (London: Ralph Iacson, 1599), pp. 84–96
chapter 42|9 pages
Thomas Wright (1561?–1624), The Passions of the Minde in Generall. Corrected, Enlarged, and with Sundry New Discourses Augmented
(London: Walter Burre, 1604), pp. 15–32
chapter 43|2 pages
Leonhard Thurneysser (1531–1596), ‘The Four Humoral Temperaments’
Quinta essentia (1574)
part 6|42 pages
Art and Culture
chapter 49|7 pages
Helisenne de Crenne (1510–1552), Les Angoisses Douloureuses Qui Procèdent D’amours (The Torments of Love)
Book One, Chapters 14–15, trans. Lisa Neal and Rendall Steven (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), pp. 34–41
chapter 50|6 pages
François Rabelais (D.1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel (1546), in Francois Rabelais’ Five Books of the Lives, Heroic. Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel
Trans. Sir Thomas Urquhart (Derby: Moray Press, 1894), Book 2, chapter 2, XXI–XXII
chapter 51|4 pages
Martin Luther (1483–1546), Abbildung des Bapstum (Depiction of the Papacy)
(Wittenberg, 1545)
