ABSTRACT
This volume of primary sources focuses on the history of emotions in Europe and its empires between 1602 and 1714. 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|45 pages
The Self
chapter 1|4 pages
Thomas Browne (1605–1682), Religio Medici
(London: Andrew Cooke, 1643), Second Part, pp. 141–150
chapter 2|3 pages
Miquel Parets (1610–1661), A Journal of the Plague Year: The Diary of the Barcelona Tanner Miquel Parets, 1651
Trans. and ed. James Amelang (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 68–71
chapter 3|4 pages
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Ed. Henry B. Wheatley (London: George Bell and Sons, 1893)
chapter 4|4 pages
Elizabeth, Viscountess Mordaunt (1632–1679), The Spiritual Diary of Elizabeth, Viscountess Mordaunt, Covering the Years 1656–1678
Elizabeth Mordaunt, The Private Diarie, ed. E. Roden and R. Jocelyn (Duncairn: 1856), pp. 59–64; 169–172
chapter 5|6 pages
Selected Excerpts of GLückel of Hameln (1646–1724), Memoirs, From The Life Of Glückel of Hameln, 1646–1724, Written by Herself
Trans. and ed. Beth-Zion Abrahams (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2010), pp. 39–40, 71 and 106–110
chapter 6|5 pages
Ralph Thoresby (1628–1725), Diary Entries on the Death of Mr. Sharp, 1693
In The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. Author of the Topography of Leeds (1677–1724), ed. Joseph Hunter (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1830), vol. 1, pp. 235–241
chapter 7|12 pages
Jacques Abbadie (1654–1727), The Art of Knowing One-Self, or, an Enquiry into the Sources of Morality Written Originally in French
(Oxford: Henry Clements andJohn Howell, 1695), pp. 138–165
chapter 8|3 pages
Abraham de Wicquefort (1606–1682), The Embassador and his Functions
Trans. Mr. Digby (London: B. Lintott, 1716), pp. 349–50
part 2|47 pages
Family and Community
chapter 9|3 pages
Complainte et Regret D’une Jeune Fille, Laquelle a Este Executee Dans La Ville De Aure De Grace, En Normandie Pour Avoir Deffaict Son Propre Enfant. Sur Le Chant, Demandez L[E] a Votre Pere Pareillement a Vostre Mere
In La Fleur du rozier des chansons nouvelles, Nouvellement Imprimees & recueillies de plusieurs Autheurs (A Lyon, Par Simon Rigaud. 1606)
chapter 10|3 pages
Testimony from the Trial of Margaret Ramsay for the Murder of Her own Child, 5 March 1662
National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh, JC1/33
chapter 11|9 pages
John Vernon, The Compleat Scholler; or, a Relation of the Life, and Latter-End Especially, of Caleb Vernon Who Dyed in the Lord on the 29th of the Ninth Month, 1665. Aged Twelve Years and Six Months. Commending to Youth the Most Excellent Knowledge of Christ Jesus the Lord
(London: the author, 1666), pp. 55–75
chapter 12|14 pages
Antoine De Courtin (1622–1685), A Treatise of Jealousie, or, Means to Preserve Peace in Marriage Wherein is Treated of I. The Nature and Effects of Jealousie, Which for the Most Part is the Fatal Cause of Discontents Between Man and Wife, II. And Because Jealousy is a Passion, It’s therefore Occasionally Discoursed of Passions in General… III. The Reciprocal Duties of Man and Wife …
(London: W. Freeman, 1684), pp. 69–87 and 140–156
chapter 13|2 pages
An Account of a Horrid and Barbarous Murder Committed on the Body of a Young Person Supposed to be of a Good Quality in the Fields Beyond Whitechappel-Church in the Parish of Stepny
(London: George Croom, 1684)
chapter 14|8 pages
The Tryal of Philip Standsfield, Son to sir James Standsfield of New-Milns for the Murther of his Father, and other Crimes Libell’d Against him, Feb. 7. 1688. for Which he had Judgment, that on the [15th… ] Betwixt the Hours of Two and Four in the Afternoon, to be Carried to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and Hang’d on a Gibbet, Until he be dead; his Tongue to be Cut Out and Burnt on a Scaffold; and his Right-Hand to be Cut off, and Affixt on the East Gate of Hedington, and his Body to be Hung in Chains. Which Doom and Sentence was Accordingly Put to due Execution upon the Said Philip Standsfield
(Edinburgh: Andrew Anderson, 1688), pp. 20–22 and 27–30
chapter 15|4 pages
Louis Hennepin (1626–1704), A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America Extending Above Four Thousand Miles Between New France and New Mexico, with a Description of The Great Lakes, Cataracts, Rivers, Plants and Animals: Also the Manners, Customs, and Languages of the Several Native Indians …
(London: M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin and S. Manship, 1698), pp. 68–73
part 3|49 pages
Religion
chapter 16|6 pages
Jean-François Senault (C.1599–1672), The use of Passions Written in French by J.F. Senault; and put into English by Henry, Earl of Monmouth
(London: John Sims, 1671), pp. 39–53
chapter 17|7 pages
Thomas Adams (1583–1652), Diseases of the Soule A Discourse Diuine, Morall, and Physicall
(London: Iohn Budge, 1616), pp. 13–21
chapter 18|7 pages
David Papillon (1582–1659), The Vanity of the Lives and Passions of Men
(London: Robert White, 1651), pp. 81–97
chapter 19|6 pages
María De Jesús De Ágreda (1602–1665), Correspondence with King Philip IV of Spain
In Correspondencia Con Felipe IV. Religión Y Razón De Estado, ed. Consolación Baranda (Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 1991), pp. 95–99 and 231–236
chapter 21|2 pages
Anonymous Engraving, Persecution of the Waldenses in the Piedmont, 1655–1663
(Vervolging van de Waldenzen in de Piemonte, 1655–1663; Kort verhael, Van den Elendigen toestant, van de Volckeren in de Valleyen van Piemont, beginnende van den Jaere 1655. tot den Jaere 1663. den 2. September).
chapter 22|10 pages
Lancelot Blackburne (1658–1743), The Unreasonableness of Anger a Sermon Preach’d Before the Queen at White-Hall, July 29, 1694
(London: Thomas Bennet, 1694)
part 4|51 pages
Politics and Law
chapter 23|3 pages
Petition for Mercy Presented by William Udall to lord Cecil (1604). Petitions in the State Papers, 1600–1699, ED. Brodie Waddell, William Udall. SP 14/7 F. 20 (1604)
British HistoryOnline, www.british-history.ac.uk/petitions/state-papers/1600s, accessed 20 November 2020.
chapter 24|13 pages
Eustache Du Refuge (1564–1617), A Treatise of the Court or Instructions for Courtiers Digested into two Books
Trans. John Reynolds (London: Will: Lee, 1622), chapters 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 23
chapter 25|8 pages
Fernando Manojo De La Corte, Newes from Spaine a Relation of the Death of Don Rodrigo Calderon, Marques of Seven Churches, &C. Faithfully Translated According to the Spanish Copy
(Madrid: widow of Fernando Correa de Montenegro, 1622)
chapter 26|7 pages
Jean Le Clerc (1657–1736), The Life of the Famous Cardinal-Duke De Richlieu, Principal Minister of State to Lewis XIII, King of France and Navarr
London: M. Gillyflower, W. Freeman, J. Walthoe and R. Parker, 1695), pp. 356–364
chapter 30|2 pages
Petition of Roger Silkston, a Poor Prisoner in Derby Gaol At the Derbyshire Quarter Sessions: 1680
In Petitions to the Derbyshire Quarter Sessions, 1632–1770, Ed. Brodie Waddell, British History Online, www.british-history.ac.uk/petitions/derbyshire/1680
part 5|119 pages
Science and Philosophy
chapter 31|16 pages
Robert Burton (1577–1640), The Anatomy of Melancholy Vvhat it is. Vvith all the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Seuerall Cures Of IT
(Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621), pp. 119–143
chapter 32|8 pages
Jacques Ferrand (C.1575-C.1623), Erōtomania or a Treatise Discoursing of the Essence, Causes, Symptomes, Prognosticks, and Cure of Love, or Erotique Melancholy
Trans. Edmund Chilmea (Oxford: Edward Forrest, 1640), pp. 217–37
chapter 33|13 pages
Nicholas Coeffeteau (1574–1623), A Table of Humane Passions with Their Causes and Effects
Trans. Edw. Grimeston (London: Nicholas Okes, 1621), pp. 547–632
chapter 34|5 pages
René Descartes (1596–1650), The Passions of the Soule in three Books the First, Treating of the Passions in Generall, and Occasionally of the Whole Nature of Man. the Second, of the Number, and Order of the Passions, and the Explication of the Six Primitive Ones. the Third, of Particular Passions
(London: J. Martin, and J. Ridley, 1650), pp. 45–54
chapter 35|7 pages
Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), A Consolatory Treatise of the Four Complexions, that is, an Instruction in the Time of Temptation for a Sad and Assaulted Heart Shewing Where-From Sadness Naturally Ariseth, and How the Assaulting Happeneth: Hereto Are Annexed Some Consolatory Speeches Exceeding Profitable for the Assaulted Hearts & Souls, Written… March 1621
(London: H. Blunden, 1654)
chapter 36|7 pages
Marin Cureau De La Chambre (1594–1669), A Discourse upon the Passions in two Parts
(London: Hen. Herringman, 1661), pp. 1–19
chapter 37|14 pages
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), The Ethics
Trans. R. H. M. Elwes, in The Chief Works of Benedict De Spinoza (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1883–4), vol. 2, Parts III and IV
chapter 38|6 pages
Théophraste Renaudot (1585–1653), Another Collection of Philosophical Conferences of the French Virtuosi upon Questions of all Sorts for the Improving of Natural Knowledg Made in the Assembly of the Beaux Esprits at Paris by the Most Ingenious Persons of that Nation
Trans. G. Havers, Gent. & J. Davies (London: Thomas Dring and John Starkey, 1665), pp. 99–101 and 150–3
chapter 39|15 pages
Nicholas Malebranche (1638–1715), Father Malebranche his Treatise Concerning the Search After Truth the Whole Work Complete. to Which is Added the Author’s Treatise of Nature and Grace
Trans. T. Taylor (London: Thomas Bennet, T. Leigh and W. Midwinter, 1700), pp. 1–5 and 10–12
chapter 40|16 pages
William Greenwood, AΠoΓΡΑΦΗ ΣΤΟΡΓΗΣ, or, a Description of the Passion of Love Demonstrating its Original, Causes, Effects, Signes, and Remedies
(London: William Place, 1657), pp. 103–27
chapter 41|8 pages
Thomas Willis (1621–1675), Two Discourses Concerning the Soul of Brutes Which is That of the Vital and Sensitive of Man. the First is Physiological, Shewing the Nature, Parts, Powers, and Affections of the Same. the Other is Pathological, Which Unfolds the Diseases Which Affect it and its Primary Seat; to Wit, the Brain and Nervous Stock, and Treats of Their Cures
(London: Thomas Dring, 1683), pp. 45–9
part 6|30 pages
Art and Culture
chapter 47|5 pages
Gabriel Joseph De Lavergne, Vicomte De Guilleragues (1628–1684), Five Love-Letters from a Nun to a Cavalier
(London: Henry Brome, 1678), pp. 1–31
