Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editorial 2
3. Content 5
4. Preface 9
5. Welcome Address 11
6. Introduction 13
7. Communities
8. The Parables of Jesus as Media of Collective Memory 23
9. Social Groups, Personal Relations, and the Making of Communities in Medieval vita monastica 45
10. Knowledge
11. Writing a Life 65
12. Knowledge Making and Authorization Strategies 75
13. Making Sense of Europe 93
14. Politics
15. How to Create Political Meaning in Public Spaces? 109
16. Making Sense of Autocracy 121
17. The Dissemination of News in Early Modern Venice 135
18. Political Information and Religious Skepticism in Early Modern Italy 147
19. Emotions
20. How to Read a Renaissance Fool 163
21. Sixteenth-Century Classifications of Passions and their Historical Contexts 181
22. Medicine
23. Making Sense of Illness 193
24. Making Sense of the Confinement of the Poor 211
25. Making Sense of Diabetes 225
26. List of Contributors 241