Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

   PDF

2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

      PDF

   2. Battlefield Emotions 1500–1800: Practices, Experience, Imagination

      • Erika Kuijpers, Cornelis van der Haven

      Pages 3-21

3. The Military: Emotional Practices and Community

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

      PDF

   2. Drill and Allocution as Emotional Practices in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Poetry, Plays and Military Treatises

      • Cornelis van der Haven

      Pages 25-47

   3. Magical Swords and Heavenly Weapons: Battlefield Fear(lessness) in the Seventeenth Century

      • Andreas Bähr

      Pages 49-69

   4. Emotions, Imagination and Surgery: Wounded Warriors in the Work of Ambroise Paré and Johan van Beverwijck

      • Bettina Noak

      Pages 71-91

   5. Fear, Honour and Emotional Control on the Eighteenth-Century Battlefield

      • Ilya Berkovich

      Pages 93-110

4. Reflections I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

      PDF

   2. Early Modern Jokes on Fearing Soldiers

      • Johan Verberckmoes

      Pages 113-124

5. The Combatant: Emotional Experience and Writing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

      PDF

   2. ‘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

      Pages 127-148

   3. Emotions in the Making: The Transformation of Battlefield Experiences during the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763)

      • Marian Füssel

      Pages 149-172

   4. Mediated Battlefields of the French Revolution and Emotives at Work

      • Ian Germani

      Pages 173-194

6. Reflections II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

      PDF

   2. Whose Battlefield Emotion?

      • Mary A. Favret

      Pages 197-204

7. The Public: Emotional Re-Creation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

      PDF

   2. The Sidelong Glance: Tracing Battlefield Emotions in Dutch Art of the Golden Age

      • Lisa De Boer

      Pages 207-227

   3. Deflecting the Fire of Eighteenth-Century French Battle Painting

      • Valerie Mainz

      Pages 229-247

   4. Picturing Valenciennes: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg and the Emotional Regulation of British Military Art in the 1790s

      • Philip Shaw

      Pages 249-267

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.

• History of Emotions
• Early Modern History
• Military History
• War Experience
• War Culture
• battle
• emotion
• psychology

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Erika Kuijpers

• Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  Cornelis van der Haven

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 17^th and 18^th 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.

Policies and ethics