In this Book
- Literature, Emotions, and Pre-Modern War: Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- Book
- 2021
- Published by: Arc Humanities Press
summary
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
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- Title page, Copyright page
- pp. i-vi
- Part One. The Emotional Costs of War
- pp. 27-28
- Chapter 4. Making Dole in Malory
- pp. 65-80
- Part Two. Voicing Conlfict
- pp. 81-82
- Part Three. The Impact of War
- pp. 165-166
- Select Bibliography
- pp. 213-218
Additional Information
ISBN
9781641893091
Related ISBN(s)
9781641893084
MARC Record
OCLC
1239979485
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2021-02-28
Language
English
Open Access
No