Editors:
- An important contribution to the fields of ‘new military history’, the history of emotions and the history of the body
- Integrates psychological, social and cultural perspectives on the early modern battlefield
- Looks at behaviour, expression and representation in a great variety of primary source material
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions (PSHE)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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The Military: Emotional Practices and Community
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Front Matter
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Reflections I
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Front Matter
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The Combatant: Emotional Experience and Writing
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Front Matter
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Reflections II
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Front Matter
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The Public: Emotional Re-Creation
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Erika Kuijpers
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Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Cornelis van der Haven
About the editors
Erika Kuijpers teaches cultural history at VU University, the Netherlands. Her previous work concerned the social history of early modern migration and labour relations. From 2008-2013 she worked at Leiden University, the Netherlands, researching memories of the Dutch Revolt, as part of the VICI research project 'Tales of the Revolt: Memory, oblivion and identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700'. She is co-editor of the volume Memory Before Modernity. Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe (2013), and is working on a monograph about the way early modern witnesses and victims of war dealt with traumatic memories.
Cornelis van der Haven is a literary historian who has published on Dutch and German theatre and literature in the 17th and 18th centuries, with a strong focus on the role of literary texts in shaping cultural and social identities. He lectures at the Literary Department of Ghent University, Belgium.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800
Book Subtitle: Practices, Experience, Imagination
Editors: Erika Kuijpers, Cornelis van der Haven
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56490-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56489-4Published: 28 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56490-0Published: 14 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-5958
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5966
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Emotion, History of Military, History of Psychology, Cultural History