Plague, Witchcraft and Fear. Notes on the Emotional Community of an Early Modern English Puritan Clergyman
The article aims to analyze two treatises written by the English puritan clergyman Henry Holland. The purpose will be to explore the emotional community to which he belonged: namely a group in which people observe the same norms of emotional expression, and value or devalue the same or related speci...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/9781 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=moderna&d=9781_oai |
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| Sumario: | The article aims to analyze two treatises written by the English puritan clergyman Henry Holland. The purpose will be to explore the emotional community to which he belonged: namely a group in which people observe the same norms of emotional expression, and value or devalue the same or related specific emotions. From the reading of his works on witchcraft and on a latest outburst of a plague it could be determined that fear was one of the cornerstones of puritan emotionality. Nevertheless, this paper argues that the representation of that emotion encompassed substantial nuances. On the one hand, the high theological culture in which Holland participated positively acknowledged those consciences troubled by the fear of God and sin as those predestined to salvation. On the other hand, dreading about minor causes such as the acts of witches and the devil, or fearing nature, understood as an autonomous entity from God's will when a personal or collective calamity occurred, was considered as a lack of confidence in the divine providence, as well as a token of a reprobate soul. |
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