Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800: Practices, Experience, Imagination [Hardcover]

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.Introduction.- Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800: Practices, experience, imagination by Erika Kuijpers and Cornelis van der Haven.- Part I: The Military: Emotional Practices and Community.- 1. Drill and Allocution as Emotional Practices in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Poetry, Plays and Military Treatises. Cornelis van der Haven.- 2. Magical Swords and Heavenly Weapons: Battlefield Fear(lessness) in the Seventeenth Century. Andreas B?hr.- 3. Emotions, Imagination and Surgery: Wounded Warriors in the Work of Ambroise Par? and Johan van Beverwijck. Bettina Noak.- 4. Fear, Honour and Emotional Control on the Eighteenth-Century Battlefield. Ilya Berkovich.- Reflections I. Early Modern Jokes on Fearing Soldiers. Johan Verberckmoes.- Part II: The Combatant: Emotional Experience and Writing.- 5. His Courage Produced More Fear in His Enemies than Shame in His Soldiers: Siege Combat and Emotional Display in the French Wars of Religion. Brian Sandberg.- 6. Emotions in the Making: The Transformation of Battlefield Experiences lãâ