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)
chapter 2|4 pages
Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), de Vita Propria
chapter 3|7 pages
Excerpt from the Autobiography of Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582)
chapter 4|9 pages
Selected Excerpts from the Diary of the Puritan Richard Rogers (1550?–1618) (April 1588–November 1589)
chapter 5|12 pages
Excerpts from the Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois (1553–1615)
chapter 6|6 pages
Thomas Platter (1499–1582), The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a Schoolmaster of the Sixteenth Century
chapter 7|3 pages
Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt
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
chapter 10|3 pages
Letters of Catherine de Medici (1519–1589), Excerpted from Lettres de Catherine de Medicis
chapter 11|4 pages
Letters of Philip II (1556–1598) to his Daughter Catalina, Duchess of Savoy (1567–1597), 10 and 27 April 1586
chapter 12|3 pages
Pierre de L’estoile (1546–1611)
chapter 13|3 pages
Jean Bodin (C. 1529/1530–1596), Six Books of the Commonwealth by Jean Bodin
chapter 14|5 pages
Fray Luis de León (1527–1591), La Perfecta Casada
chapter 16|2 pages
Forged Letters of the Jews of Spain and Constantinople
part 3|52 pages
Religion
chapter 17|6 pages
Martin Luther (1483–1546), ‘A Treatise on Good Works’
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’
chapter 19|9 pages
Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560), Apology of the [Augsburg] Confession. Article IV: of Love and the Fulfillment of the Law
chapter 20|7 pages
Erasmus (1469–1536), Ecclesiastes: on the Art of Preaching
chapter 21|4 pages
John Calvin (1509–1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion
chapter 22|3 pages
Martin Luther (1483–1546), ‘Melancholy’, from Luther’s Table Talk
chapter 23|5 pages
Ignacio de Loyola (1491–1556), ‘Spiritual Exercises’
chapter 24|4 pages
John Foxe (1516/17–1587), Book of Martyrs/Acts and Monuments
chapter 25|4 pages
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582), The Interior Castle
part 4|53 pages
Politics and Law
chapter 26|9 pages
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469–1527), The Prince
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
chapter 28|4 pages
HernÁn CortÉs (1485–1547), Letters of CortÉs: Five Letters of Relation to the Emperor Charles V
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
chapter 30|5 pages
Charles V (1500–1588), Abdication Speech and Ceremony of Emperor Charles V, 1555
chapter 32|3 pages
Pedro de Ribadeneyra (1527–1611), Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England
chapter 33|5 pages
Inquisitorial Trial of Bartholomeu Domingues (1589) and Summaries of other Inquisitorial Trials
part 5|67 pages
Science and Philosophy
chapter 35|7 pages
Selected Excerpts from Juan Luis Vives (1493–1540), De Anima et Vita
chapter 36|3 pages
Ambroise ParÉ (1510–1590), The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey
chapter 37|5 pages
Selected Extracts from Guy du Faur de Pibrac (1529–1584), Discours de L’ire et Comme il la Faut ModÉrer
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’
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
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
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
chapter 42|9 pages
Thomas Wright (1561?–1624), The Passions of the Minde in Generall. Corrected, Enlarged, and with Sundry New Discourses Augmented
chapter 43|2 pages
Leonhard Thurneysser (1531–1596), ‘The Four Humoral Temperaments’
part 6|42 pages
Art and Culture