Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800

Practices, Experience, Imagination

Erika Kuijpers editor Cornelis van der Haven editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:28th Dec '16

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Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800 cover

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.

ISBN: 9781137564894

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 5157g

303 pages

1st ed. 2016