Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200-1920

1. Emotion, Ritual and Power: From Family to Nation
Merridee L. Bailey, Katie Barclay

Part I. Familial and Personal Rituals: Local and Community Networks

2. Gift-Giving and the Obligation to Love in Riquet à la houppe

Bronwyn Reddan

3. Intimacy, Community and Power: Bedding Rituals in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Katie Barclay

4. Late-Adolescent English Gentry Siblings and Leave-Taking in the Early Eighteenth Century
Lisa Toland

Part II. Civic and Nation-Building: Power Created, Power Reinforced

5. Shipwrecks, Sorrow, Shame and the Great Southland: The Use of Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Dutch East India Company Communicative Ritual
Susan Broomhall

6. Ritualised Public Performance, Emotional Narratives and the Enactment of Power: The Public Baptism of a Muslim in Eighteenth-Century Barcelona
François Soyer

7. Ritual Encounters of the ‘Savage’ and the Citizen: French Revolutionary Ethnographers in Oceania, 1768–1803
Nicole Starbuck

8. Channelling Grief, Building the French Republic: The Death and Ritual Afterlife of Léon Gambetta, 1883–1920
Charles Sowerwine

Part III. Religious Rituals: Relationships with the Divine and the Political

9. Emotions and the Ritual of a Nun’s Coronation in Late Medieval Germany
Julie Hotchin

10. Miraculous Affects and Analogical Materialities. Rethinking the Relation between Architecture and Affect in Baroque Italy
Helen Hills

11. Political Ritual and Religious Devotion in Early Modern English Convents
Claire Walker

12. Moravian Memoirs and the Emotional Salience of Conversion Rituals
Jacqueline Gent

13. The Transformation of Sabbath Rituals by Jean Crépy and Laurent Bordelon: Redirecting Emotion through Ridicule
Charles Zika

14. Afterword: Ritual, Emotion and Power
Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François

Keywords: History, Cultural History, History of Religion, Memory Studies, Emotion