Representing war and violence : 1250-1600 / edited by Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bellis, Joanna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Europe--History--To 1500.

Violence.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 218 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2016.

Summary:

War and violence took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe, from political and territorial conflict to judicial and social spectacle; from religious persecution and crusade to self-mortification and martyrdom; from comedic brutality to civil and domestic aggression. Various cultural frameworks conditioned both the acceptance of these forms of violence, and the protest that they met with: the elusive concept of chivalry, Christianity and just war theory, political ambition and the machinery of propaganda, literary genres and the expectations they generated and challenged. The essays here, from the disciplines of history, art history and literature, explore how violence and conflict were documented, depicted, narrated and debated during this period. They consider chronicles and manuals created for and addressed directly to kings and aristocratic patrons; romances whose affective treatments of violence invited profoundly empathetic, even troublingly pleasurable, responses; diaries and 'autobiographies' compiled on the field and redacted for publication and self-promotion. The ethics and aesthetics of representation, as much as the violence being represented, emerge as a profound and constant theme for writers and artists grappling with this most fundamental and difficult topic of human experience. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Ethics and Aesthetics of Depicting War and Violence

1 Medieval Warfare - Representation Then and Now / Richard W. Kaeuper Kaeuper, Richard W. 23

2 Depicting Defeat in the Grandes Chroniques de France / Christina Normore Normore, Christina 39

3 Visualising War: the Aesthetics of Violence in the Alliterative Morte Arthure / Anne Baden-Daintree Baden-Daintree, Anne 56

Part II Debating and Narrating Violence

4 'With face pale': Melanobely Violence in John Lydgate's Troy and Thebes / Andrew Lynch Lynch, Andrew 79

5 'In Praise of Peace' in Late Medieval England / Sara V. Torres Torres, Sara V. 95

6 Representing Political Violence in La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei / Laura Slater Slater, Laura 116

Part III Experiencing, Representing and Remembering Violence

7 Representing War and Conquest, 1415-1429: the Evidence of College of Aims Manuscript M9 / Anne Curry Curry, Anne 139

8 Tudor Soldier-Authors and the Art of Military Autobiography / Matthew Woodcock Woodcock, Matthew 159

9 Three Narratives of the Fall of Calais in 1558: Explaining Defeat in Tudor England / David Grummitt Grummitt, David 178.

ISBN:

9781783271559

1783271558

OCLC:

946058903

Publisher Number:

99968909777