Literature, Emotions, and Pre-Modern War: Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Published by ARC Humanities Press 2021

Literature, Emotions, and Pre-Modern War

Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Edited by: Claire McIlroy and Anne M. Scott

In the series War and Conflict in Premodern Societies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781641893091

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About this book

An international line-up of pre-modern scholars working in the burgeoning field of the history of emotions, examines the human impact of war through selected cultural texts.

Author / Editor information

McIlroy Claire :

Claire McIlroy is an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia and was an active member of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.Scott Anne M. :

Anne M. Scott is an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia, and has published widely on Middle English literature.

Reviews

Hannah Skoda:

This is a fine collection of essays gathered to honor the academic career of Andrew Lynch, scholar of late medieval literature, warfare, and emotions. [...]

Taken together, the essays provide fresh insights into the ways in which emotions are expressed in war. Grief, love, and courage are shown to be entangled in complex ways. All the essays explore the ways in which these emotions were both expressed and represented—implicitly then, the relationship between subjective experience, articulation, and representation becomes a rather interesting theme. Finally, memory plays a surprisingly key role throughout: memories of promises made before hostilities, memory in the form of trauma, even what White terms “proleptic nostalgia” (16)—the anticipation of memories about close fraternal bonds during battle. Through this emphasis on memory, war emerges not just as a series of cataclysmic moments, but an ongoing set of relationships and feelings which resonate across time.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Preface Andrew Lynch Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: The Long Reach of War Claire Mc Ilroy and Anne M. Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Love in Times of War: Some Shakespearean Reflections Robert S. White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
PART ONE: THE EMOTIONAL COSTS OF WAR
Chapter 2. “she shal bryngen us the pees on every syde”: The Ceremonial Restoration of Women in Late Medieval Culture Stephanie Downes and Stephanie Trigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 3. Emotions and War in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale Raluca L. Radulescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 4. Making Dole in Malory Karen Cherewatuk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
PART TWO: VOICING CONLFICT
Chapter 5. The Hero “Remembers”: The Verb Gemunan in Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon Ad Putter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 6. The Hard Parting: Conflicting Codes of fin’amors and Christian duty in the Old French chansons de croisade Helen Dell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter 7. Christ versus Lucifer in Piers Plowman Anne M. Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter 8. Breathing in Peace and War: Malory’s Le Morte Darthur Corinne Saunders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 9. Giving and Gaining Voice in Civil War: Alain Chartier’s Quadrilogue Invectif in Fifteenth- Century England James Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
PART THREE: THE IMPACT OF WAR
Chapter 10. Oriental Despotism and the Reception of Romance John M. Ganim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Chapter 11. Belon, Palissy, Ronsard, and the War for the Forests of France Susan Broomhall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Chapter 12. Holy War, Cold War: War, Comedy, and the Lessons of History in the Films of Mario Monicelli Louise D’Arcens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: Warfare; emotion; medieval literature; medievalism; gender; history of emotions; medieval warfare; premodern literature

eBook

Published: March 31, 2021
ISBN: 9781641893091