Matters of Engagement

1. Matters of Engagement: Emotions, Identity, and Cultural Contact in the Premodern World. An Introduction Part 1: Letters 2. Bridging the Gap - Techniques of Appresentation and Familiar(izing) Narratives in 18th Century Transmaritime Family Correspondence 3. An Emotional Company: Mobility, Community and Control in the Records of the English East-India Company Part 2: Images 4. Lust, Love and Curiosity: The Emotional Threads in the Dutch Encounter with an Exotic East 5. Santiago Matamoros/Mataindios: Adopting an Old World Battlefield Apparition as a New World Representation of Triumph 6. Riding the Juggernaut: Embodied Emotions and 'Indian' Ritual Processions through European Eyes, c. 1300-1600 Part 3: Materials 7 Robbing the Grave: Stealing the Remains of the Blessed John of Matha from the Church of S. Tommaso in Formis in 1655 8. Days of Wrath, Days of Friendships - the Materiality of Anger and Love in Early Modern Denmark Part 4: Travel Writing 9. "A Country Where Reason Does Not Rule the Heart": Spanish Exuberance and the Traveller's Gaze 10. Sensible Distances: The Colonial Projections of Therese Huber and E.G. Wakefield 11. Animals and Emotions in the Early Modern World Part 5: Literary Accounts 12. Travel, Emotions and Timelessness: On Otherworldly Encounters in Medieval Narratives 13. "Always fleeing away": Emotion, Exile and Rest in the Old English Life of St Mary of Egypt 14. From Aaron to Othello: The Changing Emotional Register of Blackness in Shakespeare 15. Emotions, Identity and Propaganda: Ottoman Threat and Confessional Divide in Later Sixteenth-Century Germany