Literature, Emotions, and Pre-Modern War : : Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / / ed. by Anne M. Scott, Claire McIlroy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Broomhall, Susan,; Cherewatuk, Karen,; Dell, Helen,; Downes, Stephanie,; D’Arcens, Louise,; Ganim, John M.,; Lynch, Andrew,; Mc Ilroy, Claire,; Putter, Ad,; Radulescu, Raluca L.,; Saunders, Corinne,; Scott, Anne M.,; Simpson, James,; Trigg, Stephanie,; White, Robert S.,
• HerausgeberIn: McIlroy, Claire,; Scott, Anne M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: War and Conflict in Premodern Societies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

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 ‹cite›Beowulf‹/cite›, ‹cite›Piers Plowman‹/cite›, Malory's ‹cite›Le Morte Darthur‹/cite›, and Chaucer’s ‹cite›Troilus and Criseyde‹/cite›, 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 ‹cite›chansons‹/cite› 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.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: The Long Reach of War -- Chapter 1. Love in Times of War: Some Shakespearean Reflections -- 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 -- Chapter 3. Emotions and War in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale -- Chapter 4. Making Dole in Malory -- PART TWO: VOICING CONLFICT -- Chapter 5. The Hero “Remembers”: The Verb Gemunan in Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon -- Chapter 6. The Hard Parting: Conflicting Codes of fin’amors and Christian duty in the Old French chansons de croisade -- Chapter 7. Christ versus Lucifer in Piers Plowman -- Chapter 8. Breathing in Peace and War: Malory’s Le Morte Darthur -- Chapter 9. Giving and Gaining Voice in Civil War: Alain Chartier’s Quadrilogue Invectif in Fifteenth- Century England -- PART THREE: THE IMPACT OF WAR -- Chapter 10. Oriental Despotism and the Reception of Romance -- Chapter 11. Belon, Palissy, Ronsard, and the War for the Forests of France -- Chapter 12. Holy War, Cold War: War, Comedy, and the Lessons of History in the Films of Mario Monicelli -- Select Bibliography -- Index