Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Section I Modern theories and models of emotions -- I.1 Emotional community -- I.2 Emotives and emotional regimes -- I.3 Affect theory -- I.4 Performance and performativity -- I.5 Materiality -- I.6 Space and place -- I.7 Psychological approaches -- I.8 Large data set mining -- Section II Early modern terms, concepts and practices of emotions -- II. 1 Language of emotions -- II. 2 Emotion -- II. 3 Humoral theory -- II. 4 The senses -- II. 5 Pain and suffering -- II. 6 Grammar -- II. 7 Mood -- II. 8 Love -- II. 9 Melancholy -- II. 10 Fellow-feeling -- II. 11 Sociality and sociability -- II. 12 Holy affections -- II. 13 The passions -- II. 14 Contemplation -- II. 15 Sensibility -- II. 16 The expressive face -- Section III Sources and methodologies for early modern emotions -- III. 1 Poetry -- III. 2 Drama -- III. 3 Epistolary literature -- III. 4 Educational treatises -- III. 5 Histories, chronicles and memoirs -- III. 6 Medical sources -- III. 7 Economic records -- III. 8 Judicial sources -- III. 9 Church and parish records -- III. 10 Catholic missionary texts -- III. 11 Letters -- III. 12 Archives -- III. 13 Maps -- III. 14 Books -- III. 15 Household objects -- III. 16 Prints and illustrated broadsheets -- III. 17 Fantasy figures -- III. 18 Monuments -- III. 19 Devotional objects -- III. 20 Textiles -- III. 21 The body -- III. 22 Gestures -- III. 23 Music -- Section IV Focus topics for the early modern period -- Political realms -- IV. 1 Monarchies -- IV. 2 Republics -- IV. 3 Political revolutions -- IV. 4 Radical formations -- IV. 5 Law -- IV. 6 Punishment -- Destructive experiences -- IV. 7 Indebtedness -- IV. 8 War and violence -- IV. 9 Plague -- IV. 10 Domestic violence -- Life stages -- IV. 11 Pregnancy and childbirth -- IV. 12 Childhood