This book examines deployments of mixed emotion in the literary and pictorial arts of early modern Europe. It consists of two parts, the first focusing on portrayals of mixed emotion in theatre, poetry, and prose, the second on forms and functions of mixed emotion in spiritual exercises centering on pictorial images, and on the heuristic and/or restorative functions of portraying mixed emotion.
Contributors: Stijn Bussels, Tom Conley, Wietse de Boer, Carolin A. Giere, Barbara A. Kaminska, Graham R. Lea, Walter S. Melion, Mitchell Merback, Ruth Sargent Noyes, Bram Van Oostveldt, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bart Ramakers, Lukas Reddemann, Ludovica Sasso, Aline Smeesters, Paul J. Smith, Anita Traninger, and Elliott D. Wise.
Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval-and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster. He has published five monographs and well over a hundred articles, and has edited more than forty collective volumes. His latest publication is a critical edition of Erasmus's
Apophthegmata, books V–VIII (Brill, 2024).
Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University, Atlanta, where he directed the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry between 2017 and 2023. He is the author of three monographs and a critical edition of Karel van Mander’s
Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting (Brill, 2023), co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of twenty collected volumes, and author of more than a hundred articles.
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors
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Introduction: Motus mixti et compositi – the Portrayal of Mixed and Compound Emotions in the Visual and Literary Arts of Europe, 1500–1700 Walter S. Melion
Part 1: Portraying Mixed Emotions in the Literary Arts
Section A: Mixed Emotions in Dutch and Latin Drama
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All Motion Discovers Us: Moral Discernment and the Role of the Passions in Willem van Nieulandt’s Nero (1618) Bart Ramakers
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Staging the In-Between: Compound, Conflicting and Shifting Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Neo-Latin Drama from the Dutch Republic Lukas Reddemann
Section B: Mixed Emotions in Neo-Latin and French Poetry
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Between Fleeting and Compound Emotions in Neo-Latin Lyric Poetry on 'Turks': Georgius Sisgoreus’ Elegia de Sibenicensis agri vastatione Ludovica Sasso
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Shifting Emotions in Neo-Latin Psalm Poetry and Erotic Elegy: George Buchanan and Janus Lernutius Carolin A. Giere
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On Red and White Cheeks: Jakob Balde’s Poetic Ekphrases on a Triptych by Christoph Schwarz in the Light of the Scholastic Theory of the Passions Aline Smeesters
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Mixed Motives: the Art of Joachim Du Bellay, 1549–1558 Tom Conley
Section C: Mixed Emotions in Prose Literature
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Tears of Love and Sorrow: the Affective Regime of the European Pastoral Tradition Anita Traninger
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‘How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing’: Conflicting Emotions in Rabelais and Montaigne Paul J. Smith
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The Troubles of Christian Perfection: Berinzaga, Gagliardi, Borromeo Wietse de Boer
Part 2: Portraying Mixed Emotions in the Visual Arts
Section A: Mixed Emotions in Image-based Spiritual Exercises
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O vos omnes: Recognition, Tragic Emotion, and the Passerby Topos in Northern European Art around 1500 Mitchell Merback
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Mixed Emotion and Spiritual Perfection in Abraham Bloemaert’s Sylva anachoretica of 1619 Walter S. Melion
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Spiritual Joy in the Face of Death: Compound Emotions in Texts and Images of the Martyrs of the Japan Mission Raphaèle Preisinger
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Materialities of Mixed Emotions and Spiritual Martyrdom between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Grand Duchy of Tuscany Ruth Sargent Noyes
Section B: Heuristic and Sanative Images of Mixed Emotions
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Francisci chorda traxit ad se plurima corda: ‘Drawing’ the Heart’s Emotions in Jan Provoost’s Diptych of Christ Carrying the Cross Elliott D. Wise
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‘Symbolic Anatomies’: Hendrick Goltzius and the Ambiguities of Early Modern Disability Barbara A. Kaminska
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Exploring Complex Emotions through the Portrayal of Dialogic Exchange: Pieter Lastman’s Paul and Barnabas in Lystra of 1617 Graham R. Lea
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Between Despair and Hope: Raising Emotions with Dutch Seventeenth-Century Marine Paintings and Prints Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt
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