Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Abbreviations vi
4. Preface vii
5. Introduction: The Long Reach of War 1
6. Chapter 1. Love in Times of War: Some Shakespearean Reflections 9
7. PART ONE: THE EMOTIONAL COSTS OF WAR
8. Chapter 2. “she shal bryngen us the pees on every syde”: The Ceremonial Restoration of Women in Late Medieval Culture 29
9. Chapter 3. Emotions and War in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale 45
10. Chapter 4. Making Dole in Malory 65
11. PART TWO: VOICING CONLFICT
12. Chapter 5. The Hero “Remembers”: The Verb Gemunan in Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon 83
13. Chapter 6. The Hard Parting: Conflicting Codes of fin’amors and Christian duty in the Old French chansons de croisade 101
14. Chapter 7. Christ versus Lucifer in Piers Plowman 119
15. Chapter 8. Breathing in Peace and War: Malory’s Le Morte Darthur 131
16. Chapter 9. Giving and Gaining Voice in Civil War: Alain Chartier’s Quadrilogue Invectif in Fifteenth- Century England 151
17. PART THREE: THE IMPACT OF WAR
18. Chapter 10. Oriental Despotism and the Reception of Romance 167
19. Chapter 11. Belon, Palissy, Ronsard, and the War for the Forests of France 179
20. Chapter 12. Holy War, Cold War: War, Comedy, and the Lessons of History in the Films of Mario Monicelli 199
21. Select Bibliography 213
22. Index 219