Overview
- An important contribution to the fields of ‘new military history’, the history of emotions and the history of the body
- Integrates psychological, social and cultural perspectives on the early modern battlefield
- Looks at behaviour, expression and representation in a great variety of primary source material
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions (PSHE)
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About this book
This book explores changes in emotional cultures of the early modern battlefield. Military action involves extraordinary modes of emotional experience and affective control of the soldier, and it evokes strong emotional reactions in society at large. While emotional experiences of actors and observers may differ radically, they can also be tightly connected through social interaction, cultural representations and mediatisation. The book integrates psychological, social and cultural perspectives on the battlefield, looking at emotional behaviour, expression and representation in a great variety of primary source material. In three steps it discusses the emotional practices in the army, the emotional experiences of the individual combatant and the emotions of the mediated battlefield in the visual arts.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Military: Emotional Practices and Community
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Reflections I
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The Combatant: Emotional Experience and Writing
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Reflections II
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The Public: Emotional Re-Creation
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Erika Kuijpers teaches cultural history at VU University, the Netherlands. Her previous work concerned the social history of early modern migration and labour relations. From 2008-2013 she worked at Leiden University, the Netherlands, researching memories of the Dutch Revolt, as part of the VICI research project 'Tales of the Revolt: Memory, oblivion and identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700'. She is co-editor of the volume Memory Before Modernity. Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe (2013), and is working on a monograph about the way early modern witnesses and victims of war dealt with traumatic memories.
Cornelis van der Haven is a literary historian who has published on Dutch and German theatre and literature in the 17th and 18th centuries, with a strong focus on the role of literary texts in shaping cultural and social identities. He lectures at the Literary Department of Ghent University, Belgium.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800
Book Subtitle: Practices, Experience, Imagination
Editors: Erika Kuijpers, Cornelis van der Haven
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56490-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56489-4Published: 28 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56490-0Published: 14 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-5958
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5966
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Emotion, History of Military, History of Psychology, Cultural History