Emotions and War

Chapter 1 Introduction — War as Emotion: Cultural Fields of Conflict and Feeling

Chapter 2 Emotional Responses to Medieval Warfare in the History of William Marshal

Chapter 3 ‘Blisse wes on londe’: The Feeling of Peace in LaƷamon’s Brut

Chapter 4 ‘Je Hé Guerre, Point Ne La Doy Prisier’: Peace and the Emotions of War in the Prison Poetry of Charles d’Orléans

Chapter 5 ‘He In Salte Teres Dreynte’: Understanding Troilus’s Tears

Chapter 6 Human Prudence versus the Emotion of the Cosmos: War, Deliberation and Destruction in the Late Medieval Statian Tradition

Chapter 7 Moving to War: Rhetoric and Emotion in William Worcester’s Boke of Noblesse

Chapter 8 ‘I Was Enforced to Become an Eyed Witnes’: Documenting War in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Chapter 9 ‘Man Is a Battlefield within Himself’: Arms and the Affections in the Counsel of More, Erasmus, Vives, and Their Circle

Chapter 10 Grief and Glory: The Commemoration of War in Seventeenth-Century England

Chapter 11 Remembering Civil War in Andrew Marvell’s ‘Upon Appleton House’

Chapter 12 ‘Terrible Delight’: Art, Violence, and Power in Early Eighteenth-Century War Poems

Chapter 13 ‘In Brazen Bonds’: The Warring Landscapes of North Carolina, 1775

Chapter 14 The Grievable Life of the War-Correspondent: The Experience of War in Henry Crabb Robinson’s Letters to The Times, 1808–1809

Chapter 15 Afterword: Locating Emotions, Locating Wars