Susan Broomhall - Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

Lisa Beaven is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at The University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the culture of seventeenth-century Rome, particularly art patronage and collecting. She is currently working on a collaborative project funded by the Australian Research Council entitled Experiencing Space: Sensory Encounters from Baroque Rome to Neo-baroque Las Vegas . She is the author of An Ardent Patron: Cardinal Camillo Massimo and his Artistic and Antiquarian Circles in Rome (London: Paul Holberton Press, Madrid: CEEH, 2010).

Susan Broomhall is a Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She is the author of a series of works that explore gender and emotions in early modern France and the Low Countries, including most recently (with Jennifer Spinks) Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Feminising Sources and Interpretations of the Past (Ashgate, 2011) and as editor, Gender and Emotions in Early Modern Europe: Destroying Order, Structuring Disorder (Ashgate, 2015) and Spaces for Feeling: Emotions and Sociabilities in Britain, 16501850 (Routledge, 2015). She was a Foundation Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 11001800 and is now an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, researching emotional strategies in the correspondence of Catherine de Medici.

Denis Crouzet is a Historian of sixteenth-century France at the Universit de Paris-Sorbonne. He has published widely on violence, including Les Guerriers de Dieu. La violence au temps des troubles de religion (1990); La nuit de la Saint-Barthlemy. Un rve perdu de la Renaissance (1994); with Natalie Zemon-Davis, LHistoire tout feu tout flammes: Entretiens avec Denis Crouzet (2004); Dieu en ses royaumes: Une histoire des guerres de religion (2008) and most recently, Nostradamus (2011).

Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan is a Historian of Renaissance Italy, particularly Venice, at the Universit de Paris-Sorbonne. She has published Sopra le acque salse. Espaces, pouvoirs et socit Venise la fin du Moyen ge (1992); Venise, une invention de la ville (XIIIeXVe sicle) (1997); Venise triomphante, les horizons dun mythe (1999); Pouvoir et dilit dans lItalie communale et seigneuriale (2003); Enfers et paradis. LItalie de Dante et de Giotto (2001); Renaissances italiennes (13801500) (2007) and Les Villes vivantes. Italie XIIIeXVe sicles (2009).

Lisa Keane Elliott is a doctoral candidate in History at The University of Western Australia. Her thesis is entitled Poverty, poor relief and the pauvres malades : a social history of the Paris Htel-Dieu, 15051598. She has previously published essays on masculinity and charity in Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Self and Others (Ashgate, 2011); Experiences of Poverty in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and France (Ashgate, 2012) and Experiences of Charity, 12501650 .

Sarah Ferber is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wollongong. Her books include Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early modern France (Routledge, 2004) and Bioethics in Historical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She contributed several entries to Richard M. Golden (ed.), Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition (ABC-CLIO 2006) and an overview essay on demonic possession and witchcraft to Brian P. Levack (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America (Oxford University Press 2013).

Sarah Finn completed her Ph.D. in 2010 at The University of Western Australia on Dante Alighieri as an enduring feature of Italian cultural memory. In 2013, she was a Research Associate in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Western Australia, and a co-ordinator of the symposium on Violence and Emotions, which stimulated this collection.

Troy Heffernan is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Southern Queensland, where he is studying early modern politics and ecclesiastical history.

Andrea Rizzi is Senior Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian studies at the University of Melbourne. He has published on vernacular translation at the court of Ercole I of Ferrara (see his The Historia Imperiale by Riccobaldo Ferrarese Translated by Matteo Maria Boiardo, 14711473 published by the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo), and translation history in Renaissance Italy. Andrea has been a Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow (2011) at the Villa I Tatti Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence.