CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Mobs -- Canetti's "Biology" of the Crowd: Contexts and Instances -- The Rage of Heralitus: Reflections on the Difficult Relationship between the Philosopher and the Masses -- Armies as Mobs in the Early Middle Ages -- Assembled in the Presence of God: Majestic Perseverance and the Cantus Coronatus -- Nationes and Other Bonding Groups at Late Medieval Central European Universities -- Picturing and Promoting New Identities: The Medieval University at Paris and Its "Nations" -- Communities, Crowd-Theory, and Mob-Theory in Late-Fourteenth Century English History Writing and Poetry -- Boccaccio's Mobs: Religious Devotion, Xenophobia, and Fama in three Decameron Novelle -- The Way Many Aspired to the Eloquence of the Few: The Neo-Latin Colloquium -- Preaching to the Mob: Space, Ideas, and Persuasion in Renaissance Florence -- The Signs - and Bells - of Mass Pilgrimage -- Philip II's Entry into Zaragoza in 1585: A Theater of Power or Contestation? -- The People Submissive. The People Rebellious -- A Riot, A Harangue, and a (Failed) Uprising: Three Scenes from Nineteenth-Century Operas -- The Hourglass Figure in Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi [The Betrothed]: Multiplicities in Flux, Spatial Form, and the Milanese Bread Riots of 1628 -- Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Witchcraft and Mob Hysteria in America -- Index.