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