Contents
From the Editors – Redactioneel
Introduction Batavian Phlegm? The Dutch and their Emotions in Pre-Modern Times Herman Roodenburg and Catrien Santing
The Devotio Moderna, the Emotions and the Search for ‘Dutchness’ Mathilde van Dijk
Empathy in the Making Crafting the Believer’s Emotions in the Late Medieval Low Countries Herman Roodenburg
How Rembrandt surpassed the Ancients, Italians and Rubens as the Master of ‘the Passions of the Soul’ Eric Jan Sluijter
Compassion and the Creation of an Affective Community in the Theatre Vondel’s Mary Stuart, or Martyred Majesty (1646) Kristine Steenbergh
Experiential Protestantism and Emotional Communities A Case-Study of an Eighteenth-century Ego-document Fred van Lieburg
Fashioning the Emotional Self The Dutch Statesman Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761–1825) and the Cult of Sensibility Edwina Hagen
Understanding Emotional Identities The Dutch Phlegmatic Temperament as Historical Case-Study Dorothee Sturkenboom