Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800: Practices, Experience, Imagination (Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions)

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 Bähr -- 3. Emotions, Imagination And Surgery: Wounded Warriors In The Work Of Ambroise Paré 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 During The Seven Years' War (1756-1763). Marian Füssel -- 7. Mediated Battlefields Of The French Revolution And Emotives At Work. Ian Germani -- Reflections Ii. Whose Battlefield Emotion? Mary A. Favret -- Part Iii: The Public: Emotional Re-creation -- 8. The Sidelong Glance: Tracing Battlefield Emotions In Dutch Art Of The Golden Age. Lisa De Boer -- 9. Deflecting The Fire Of Eighteenth-century French Battle Painting. Valerie Mainz -- 10. Picturing Valenciennes: Philippe-jacques De Loutherbourg And The Emotional Regulation Of British Military Art In The 1790s. Philip Shaw -- Conclusions And Perspectives -- Battlefield Emotions In Early Modern Europe: Trends, Key Issues And Blind Spots. Dorothee Sturkenboom -- List Of Authors . Erika Kuijpers, Cornelis Van Der Haven, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Preface 6 Contents 8 List of Figures 11 Introduction 14 Chapter 1: Battlefield Emotions 1500–1800: Practices, Experience, Imagination 15 Practices 19 Experience 22 Imagination 26 Notes 29 Part I: The Military: Emotional Practices and Community 34 Chapter 2: Drill and Allocution as Emotional Practices in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Poetry, Plays and Military Treatises 35 Drill, Obedience and Dedication 38 Muscular Bonding and Togetherness 42 Allocution and the Devotion to Courage 44 The Swift Spirits of Frederick Henry 48 Conclusion 53 Notes 54 Chapter 3: Magical Swords and Heavenly Weapons: Battlefield Fear(lessness) in the Seventeenth Century 58 The Magical Sword of Gustavus Adolphus 58 Soldiers’ Diaries 61 The Fearlessness of the Christian soldier 63 The Fearlessness of the Godless Soldier 65 The Impact of Fear 67 Notes 70 Chapter 4: Emotions, Imagination and Surgery: Wounded Warriors in the Work of Ambroise Paré and Johan van Beverwijck 79 A Case of Compassion 79 Imagination Conquers Minds 81 Emotions and Surgery in the Work of Ambroise Paré 82 Imagination and Healing 84 Surgery and Military 86 Emotions and Surgical Practice 88 Spiritualist Science 91 Conclusion 92 Notes 93 Chapter 5: Fear, Honour and Emotional Control on the Eighteenth-Century Battlefield 100 The Limits of the Conventional Model 102 Honour and the Common Soldier 104 Fighting Fear 109 Notes 112 : Reflections I 118 Chapter 6: Early Modern Jokes on Fearing Soldiers 119 Notes 128 Part II: The Combatant: Emotional Experience and Writing 131 Chapter 7: ‘His Courage Produced More Fear in His Enemies than Shame in His Soldiers’: Siege Combat and Emotional Display in the French Wars of Religion 132 Siege Combat and Emotional Expression 134 Sieges as Sites of Emotional Display 134 Siege Narratives as Emotional Sources 136 Personal Narratives of Siege Warfare 138 Three Case Studies of Siege Emotions 139 Catholic Loyalism of the Baron de Chabans 139 Virtuous Command of the Duc de Montmorency 141 Siege Testimony of Louis de Pontis 143 Conclusion 146 Notes 147 Chapter 8: Emotions in the Making: The Transformation of Battlefield Experiences during the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) 154 Battle Narratives and the Materiality of Experience 157 Representing Emotion for the Masses: From Intertextuality to Intermediality 163 The Feeling of Reading: Emotions at Home 166 Conclusion: Historicising the Change of Emotional Regimes 169 Notes 170 Chapter 9: Mediated Battlefields of the French Revolution and Emotives at Work 178 Public Representations 182 Soldiers’ Stories 186 Battlefield Emotions: Hondschoote, 1793 189 Feelings at War: Nature and Patriotism 192 Conclusion 193 Notes 194 : Reflections II 200 Chapter 10: Whose Battlefield Emotion? 201 Notes 208 Part III: The Public: Emotional Re-Creation 209 Chapter 11: The Sidelong Glance: Tracing Battlefield Emotions in Dutch Art of the Golden Age 210 Flesh-Witnessing and Eye-Witnessing 212 Battlefield Emotions in Pictures: Wide-Angle and Close-up 215 Siege Maps and the Love of Knowledge 217 Witnessing the Citizen Soldier 221 The Sidelong Glance 225 Notes 226 Chapter 12: Deflecting the Fire of Eighteenth-Century French Battle Painting 231 The Institutional Premises 232 The Emotional Charge of Battle Painting 235 Battle Painting Versus History Painting 240 Notes 244 Chapter 13: Picturing Valenciennes: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg and the Emotional Regulation of British Military Art in the 1790s 250 Visualising War: The Grand Attack on Valenciennes 252 War Displayed: Valenciennes and the Royal Gaze 260 Competing Visions: Brown, Loutherbourg and Royal Patronage 262 Conclusion 264 Notes 265 Conclusions and Perspectives 269 Chapter 14: Battlefield Emotions in Early Modern Europe: Trends, Key Issues and Blind Spots 270 ‘Emotional Turns’ in Military History? 270 Long-term Trends in Early Modern Battlefield Emotions 271 The Affective Hard Core of Military Culture 274 Emotional Communities in the Army 277 Blind Spots 279 Notes 281 Index 283 "Preface"--"Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "Introduction" -- "Chapter 1: Battlefield Emotions 1500â#x80;#x93;1800: Practices, Experience, Imagination" -- "Practices" -- "Experience" -- "Imagination" -- "Notes" -- "Part I: The Military: Emotional Practices and Community" -- "Chapter 2: Drill and Allocution as Emotional Practices in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Poetry, Plays and Military Treatises" -- "Drill, Obedience and Dedication" -- "Muscular Bonding and Togetherness" -- "Allocution and the Devotion to Courage" -- "The Swift Spirits of Frederick Henry" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 3: Magical Swords and Heavenly Weapons: Battlefield Fear(lessness) in the Seventeenth Century" -- "The Magical Sword of Gustavus Adolphus" -- "Soldiersâ#x80;#x99; Diaries" -- "The Fearlessness of the Christian soldier" -- "The Fearlessness of the Godless Soldier" -- "The Impact of Fear" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 4: Emotions, Imagination and Surgery: Wounded Warriors in the Work of Ambroise Paré and Johan van Beverwijck" -- "A Case of Compassion" -- "Imagination Conquers Minds" -- "Emotions and Surgery in the Work of Ambroise Paré" -- "Imagination and Healing" -- "Surgery and Military" -- "Emotions and Surgical Practice" -- "Spiritualist Science" -- " Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 5: Fear, Honour and Emotional Control on the Eighteenth-Century Battlefield" -- "The Limits of the Conventional Model" -- "Honour and the Common Soldier" -- "Fighting Fear" -- "Notes" -- ": Reflections I" -- "Chapter 6: Early Modern Jokes on Fearing Soldiers" -- "Notes" -- "Part II: The Combatant: Emotional Experience and Writing" -- "Chapter 7: â#x80;#x98;His Courage Produced More Fear in His Enemies than Shame in His Soldiersâ#x80;#x99;: Siege Combat and Emotional Display in the French Wars of Religion" -- "Siege Combat and Emotional Expression." Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Battlefield Emotions 1500–1800: Practices, Experience, Imagination....Pages 3-21 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 Drill and Allocution as Emotional Practices in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Poetry, Plays and Military Treatises....Pages 25-47 Magical Swords and Heavenly Weapons: Battlefield Fear(lessness) in the Seventeenth Century....Pages 49-69 Emotions, Imagination and Surgery: Wounded Warriors in the Work of Ambroise Paré and Johan van Beverwijck....Pages 71-91 Fear, Honour and Emotional Control on the Eighteenth-Century Battlefield....Pages 93-110 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Early Modern Jokes on Fearing Soldiers....Pages 113-124 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 ‘His Courage Produced More Fear in His Enemies than Shame in His Soldiers’: Siege Combat and Emotional Display in the French Wars of Religion....Pages 127-148 Emotions in the Making: The Transformation of Battlefield Experiences during the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763)....Pages 149-172 Mediated Battlefields of the French Revolution and Emotives at Work....Pages 173-194 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Whose Battlefield Emotion?....Pages 197-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 The Sidelong Glance: Tracing Battlefield Emotions in Dutch Art of the Golden Age....Pages 207-227 Deflecting the Fire of Eighteenth-Century French Battle Painting....Pages 229-247 Picturing Valenciennes: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg and the Emotional Regulation of British Military Art in the 1790s....Pages 249-267 Front Matter....Pages 269-269 Battlefield Emotions in Early Modern Europe: Trends, Key Issues and Blind Spots....Pages 271-283 Back Matter....Pages 285-303