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• CONTENTS List of Contributors ... vii List of Illustrations ... ix Introduction: Mobs ... 1 Canetti's "Biology" of the Crowd: Contexts and Instances ... 9 Leonard Michael Koff The Rage of Heraclitus: Reflections on the Difficult Relationship between the Philosopher and the Masses ... 41 Ben Schomakers Armies as Mobs in the Early Middle Ages ... 63 Bernard S. Bachrach Assembled in the Presence of God: Majestic Perseverance and the Cantus Coronatus ....79 Nancy van Deusen Nationes and Other Bonding Groups at Late Medieval Central European Universities ... 95 Paul W. Knoll Picturing and Promoting New Identities: The Medieval University at Paris and its "Nations" ... 117 Charlotte Bauer Communities, Crowd-Theory, and Mob-Theory in Late-Fourteenth Century English History Writing and Poetry ... 141 Andrew Galloway Boccaccio's Mobs: Religious Devotion, Xenophobia, and Fama in Three Decameron Novelle ... 165 Robert W. Hanning The Way Many Aspired to the Eloquence of the Few: Th e Neo-Latin Colloquium ... 189 Terence Tunberg Preaching to the Mob: Space, Ideas, and Persuasion in Renaissance Florence ... 203 Peter Howard The Signs-and Bells-of Mass Pilgrimage ... 231 Cornelia Oefelein Philip II's Entry into Zaragoza in
• 1585: A Theater of Power or Contestation? ... 269 Teofilo F. Ruiz The People Submissive, The People Rebellious ... 285 Richard Taruskin A Riot, a Harangue, and a (Failed) Uprising: Three Scenes from Nineteenth-Century Operas ... 305 David Rosen The Hourglass Figure in Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi [The Betrothed]: Multiplicities in Flux, Spatial Form, and the Milanese Bread Riots of 1628 ... 339 Aino Anna-Maria Paasonen Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Witchcraft and MobHysteria in America ... 363 A. Richard Sogliuzzo Index ... 383.
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The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link between past and present-mobs are clearly of much importance today. The idea of mobs provides the context for all the essays and topics in this volume - from Heraclitus to the writings of Elias Canetti to the notion of internet mobs. The essays here speak to the complex nature of the mob: its defining characteristics and the varying consequences of its behavior. Mobs as a book brings wide-ranging clarity to a topic that touches such disciplines as medieval studies, literature, musicology, theology and philosophy, history, social theory, the development of the early university, and theatre. Contributors are (in order within the volume): Leonard M. Koff, Ben Schomakers, Bernard S. Bachrach, Nancy van Deusen, Paul W. Knoll, Charlotte Bauer, Andrew Galloway, Robert W. Hanning, Terence Tunberg, Peter Howard, Cornelia Oefelein, Teofilo Ruiz, Richard Taruskin, David B. Rosen, Aino Paasonen and Richard Sogliuzzo.
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Traces the history of riots in the United States and examines their causes and results. Also discusses ways of dealing with mob action.
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On May 15, 1916, a crowd of 15,000 witnessed the lynching of an eighteen-year-old black farm worker named Jesse Washington. Most central Texans of the time failed to call for the punishment of the mob's leaders. In The Making of a Lynching Culture, William D. Carrigan seeks to explain not how a fiendish mob could lynch one man but how a culture of violence that nourished this practice could form and endure for so long among ordinary people. Beginning as far back as the 1836 independence of Texas, The Making of a Lynching Culture re-examines traditional explanations of lynching, including the role of the frontier, economic tensions, and political conflicts. It also addresses acts of violence ignored or marginalized in many studies of lynching, notably citizen violence against Native Americans and vigilante executions of Anglo Americans. Using a voluminous body of court records, newspaper accounts, oral histories, and other sources, Carrigan shows how conventional notions of justice and historical memory were reshaped to glorify violence and foster a culture that legitimized lynching.
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• Part 1 Ideology: The Ideological Functions of the Mob-- The Place of the Lumpenproletariat in Marx's Dialectic-- Marx's Class Analysis of Events in France-- The Emergence of the Crowd - Gustave Le Bon and the Fascist Concept of the Masses-- Fascist and Democratic Corporatism.
• part 2 Democracy: Ideology and Democracy in the 1984-85 British Miner's Strike-- The Dilemma of Democratization in Eastern Europe.
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"The People and the Mob" examines the ideological depiction of the masses from the time of the French Revolution to the democratization of Eastern Europe. During this period, Hayes explains how political activists seeking popular appeal have increasingly identified mass social groups in positive rather than negative terms, as the "people" rather than the "mob". However, Hayes argues that although the bulk of the population has come to be identified with the people, the concept of the mob has not disappeared from political discourse, but has rather been redefined to refer to a vicious minority. The ideological significance of this concept of the mob is made clear by Hayes's examination of Marx's depiction of the lumpenproleteriat, Le Bon's analysis of the crowd, fascist propaganda, and corporatists views of the mob. Throughout his analysis, the author finds the concept of the mob to be closely tied to that of the people in a way that indicated ambiguous, inconsistent, or opportunist attitudes toward mass social groups. Hayes investigates the implications of such attitudes for democracy by considering political conflicts in the 1984-85 British miners' strike, and in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. The book explains how and why the concept of the mob has been incorporated into several forms of ideology that claim to speak for the people. This important finding is supported by Hayes's identification of social analysis in which financiers and the mob are linked to each other and separated from the people, using moral criteria of the work ethic. It is also supported by his explanation of the popular rhetorical appeal of political condemnations of the mob. Hayes shows that these rhetorical appeals and social distinctions are found are found in the ideology of both right and left. He demonstrates that even Marx has adopted such an ideology through his highly original interpretation of the class structure developed by Marx to explain events in France. Hayes's conclusions aim to extend the fields of political theory and the history of ideas. "The People and the Mob" is intended to be useful to anyone interested in Marxism, crowd theory, fascism, corporatism, civil conflict in Europe and the problems of modern democracy.
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