Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe.

Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands and live in a state of physical or internal exile as a result of religious conflict and upheaval. Drawing on new insights from history of emotions methodologies, Feeling Exclusion explores the complex relationships between communities in exile, the homelands from which they fled or were exiled, and those from whom they sought physical or psychological assistance. It examines the various coping strategies religious refugees developed to deal with their marginalization and exclusion, and investigates the strategies deployed in various media to generate feelings of exclusion through models of social difference, that questioned the loyalty, values, and trust of "others".

Accessibly written, divided into three thematic parts, and enhanced by a variety of illustrations, Feeling Exclusion is perfect for students and researchers of early modern emotions and religion.

Giovanni Tarantino is Research Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Florence and Chair of the COST Action ‘People in Motion (1492–1923)’. His publications include Republicanism, Sinophilia and Historical Writing: Thomas Gordon (c.1691–1750) and his History of England (2012) and Lo scrittoio di Anthony Collins (1676–1729) (2007).

Charles Zika is a Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. His interests lie in the intersections of religion, emotion, visual culture, and print in early modern Europe, and his publications include The Appearance of Witchcraft: Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe (2007).