Literature, Emotions, and Pre-Modern War

Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Claire McIlroy, Anne M. Scott, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies) McIlroy, Claire (University of Western Australia, English and Cultural Studies) Scott, Anne M. (University of Western Australia, Anne M Scott

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This collection assembles work by some of the foremost English-speaking scholars of pre-modern thought and culture and is the fruit of the Australian Research Council's ground-breaking Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion. The impact of war, a human activity that is both public and politically charged, is examined as it affects private human lives caught up in public and political situations. The essays, many of them influenced by the burgeoning field of study in the history of emotions, examine the often unconsidered effects of war—on the individual and on the commune—as revealed in the study of well-known texts such as Beowulf, Piers Plowman, Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, and Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, as well as other lesser-known works that mirror the concerns of the society in which they were conceived. These latter range from the twelfth-century chansons of the Crusades, through the fifteenth-century French and English political works of Alain Chartier, to the twentieth-century anti-war satirical films of Mario Monicelli.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-03-31
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWar and Conflict in Premodern Societies
Antal sidor240
FörlagArc Humanities Press
ISBN9781641893084

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Preface: Andrew LynchIntroduction: The Long Reach of War, Claire McIlroy and Anne M. ScottPART I: THE EMOTIONAL COSTS OF WARChapter One: Love in Times of War: Some Shakespearean reflections, Robert S. WhiteChapter Two: “she shal bryngen us the pees on every syde”: The Ceremonial Restoration of Women in Late Medieval Culture, Stephanie Downes and Stephanie TriggChapter Three: Emotions and War in Chaucer’s “Knight’s Tale”, Raluca RadulescuChapter Four: Making Dole inMalory, Karen CherewatukPART II: VOICING CONLFICTChapter Five: The Hero “Remembers”: gemunan in Beowulf and the Battle of Maldon, Ad PutterChapter Six: The Hard Parting: Conflicting Codes of fin’amors and Christian Duty in Medieval chansons de croisade, Helen DellChapter Seven: Christ versus Lucifer in Piers Plowman, Anne M. ScottChapter Eight: Breathing in Peace and War: Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, Corinne SaundersChapter Nine: Giving and Gaining Voice in Civil War: Alain Chartier’s Quadrilogue Invectif in Fifteenth-Century England, James SimpsonPART III: THE IMPACT OF WARChapter Ten: Oriental Despotism and the Reception of Romance, John M. GanimChapter Eleven: Belon, Palissy, Ronsard, and the War for the Forests of France, Susan BroomhallChapter Twelve: Holy War, Cold War: War, Comedy, and the Lessons of History in the Films of Mario Monicelli, LouiseD’Arcens

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.