Literature, emotions, and pre-modern war : conflict in medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Claire McIlroy and Anne M. Scott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McIlroy, Claire Elizabeth, 1970- editor.

Scott, Anne M., editor.

Series:

War and conflict in premodern societies.

War and Conflict in Premodern Societies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

War in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2021]

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 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.

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64189-308-7

OCLC:

1239979485