Mobs

Nancy van Deusen, holds a Ph.D. in Musicology, Indiana University, Bloomington; is currently Professor of Musicology, Benezet Professor of the Humanities, Claremont Graduate University, and is Director of the Claremont Consortium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Claremont Colleges and Graduate University. She has taught widely at Indiana University, the University of Basel, Switzerland, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Central European University, Budapest, and within the California State University system. She has received American Philosophical Society, numerous NEH, and Fulbright grants; and has published on music within the medieval city of Rome, music, liturgy, and institutional structure within the medieval cathedral milieu of Nevers, France, the medieval sequence within its Latin codicological and paleographical contexts, as well as its significance for the history of ideas; music as medieval science and within the curriculum of the early university.Leonard Michael Koff holds a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an associate of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, where he has taught and developed on campus and online courses, including Comparative Literature’s several-part humanities sequence: Western literature from antiquity to the 20th century and literature from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. He has published Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling (University of California Press) and essays on medieval literature, the Italian trecento, and medievalism, and lectured in this country, in Europe, and in the Middle East on such subjects as the relationship between literature and philosophy, the Hebrew Bible and Western religious traditions, religious conversion, Cicero, Freud, and Emmanuel Levinas, and on distance learning. His most recent work is forthcoming in two Modern Language Association volumes, Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower and Approaches to Teaching the Canterbury Tales.

• CONTENTSList of Contributors ... viiList of Illustrations ... ixIntroduction: Mobs ... 1Canetti’s “Biology” of the Crowd: Contexts and Instances ... 9Leonard Michael KoffThe Rage of Heraclitus: Reflections on the DifficultRelationship between the Philosopher and the Masses ... 41Ben SchomakersArmies as Mobs in the Early Middle Ages ... 63Bernard S. BachrachAssembled in the Presence of God: Majestic Perseveranceand the Cantus Coronatus ....79Nancy van DeusenNationes and Other Bonding Groups at Late Medieval CentralEuropean Universities ... 95Paul W. KnollPicturing and Promoting New Identities: The MedievalUniversity at Paris and its “Nations” … 117Charlotte BauerCommunities, Crowd-Theory, and Mob-Theory inLate-Fourteenth Century English HistoryWriting and Poetry ... 141Andrew GallowayBoccaccio’s Mobs: Religious Devotion, Xenophobia, andFama in Three Decameron Novelle … 165Robert W. HanningThe Way Many Aspired to the Eloquence of the Few:Th e Neo-Latin Colloquium ... 189Terence TunbergPreaching to the Mob: Space, Ideas, and Persuasion inRenaissance Florence ... 203Peter HowardThe Signs—and Bells—of Mass Pilgrimage ... 231Cornelia OefeleinPhilip II’s Entry into Zaragoza in 1585: A Theater of Poweror Contestation? ... 269Teofilo F. RuizThe People Submissive, The People Rebellious … 285Richard TaruskinA Riot, a Harangue, and a (Failed) Uprising: Three Scenesfrom Nineteenth-Century Operas ... 305David RosenThe Hourglass Figure in Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi[The Betrothed]: Multiplicities in Flux, Spatial Form,and the Milanese Bread Riots of 1628 ... 339Aino Anna-Maria PaasonenArthur Miller’s The Crucible: Witchcraft and MobHysteria in America ... 363A. Richard SogliuzzoIndex ... 383