Narrating War.
Early Modern and Contemporary Perspectives.
Edited by Marco Mondini Edited by Massimo Rospocher
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(November 2013)
ISBN: 9783428142118
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One of the most significant aspects of the recent historiography on war is the attention dedicated to the genesis of war’s cultural image. In the last twenty years the representation of war in literature and the arts, in collective rituals and the media, has been central to much research. These studies recognize that the various means of communication constructing and disseminating the image of a conflict – from painting to cinema, novels to monuments, political rhetoric to religious preaching – help to shape a general narrative about war.
What are the motives and what is the ultimate point of fighting and (above all) dying in war? How to legitimate the sacrifice needed for victory (or even for defeat)? Why, and on what terms, must the subject, the faithful Christian, the citizen risk their lives on the battlefield, if the pope, or the king or the atria require them to?
The narration of conflict feeds on literary and visual archetypes with century-long roots. A German postcard of the First World War represents the brave fallen soldier, watched over by his faithful steed, following iconographic codes similar to those in Renaissance painting; the 1940s British aviator is the heir of a long tradition of heroic epic harking back to medieval chivalric romance.
This volume represents a discussion between leading North American and European scholars of different disciplines (from social history to the history of art) and of two crucial periods in the history of war, the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Without neglecting the reality of conflict and its dramatic effects on civilian populations, they explore the changing Western narratives and discourses of war.
Marco Mondini and Massimo Rospocher
Preface
Marco Mondini
Narrated Wars. Literary and Iconographic Stereotypes in Historical Accounts of Armed Conflict
Part I. Narrating Early Modern War
Lauro Martines
Notes on War and Social History
Jean-Louis Fournel
Narrating the Italian Wars (1494–1540). Contamination, Models, and Knowledge
Christine Shaw
Wartime Propaganda during Charles VIII's Expedition to Italy, 1494/95
Massimo Rospocher
Songs of War. Historical and Literary Narratives of the «Horrendous Italian Wars» (1494–1559)
Vincenzo Lavenia
In God's Fields. Military Chaplains and Soldiers in Flanders during the Eighty Years' War
Krystina Stermole
Chivalric Combat in a Modern Landscape. Depicting Battle in Venetian Prints during the War of the League of Cambrai (1509–1516)
Part II. Narrating Modern War
Jay Winter
Beyond Glory? Writing War
Carine Trevisan
«Small Soldiers»: When Children Kill
Christa Hämmerle
Gendered Narratives of the First World War. The Example of Former Austria
Victor Demiaux
Inter-Allied Community? Rituals and Transnational Narratives of the Great War
Roberto Bianchi
The Great War in Comics. Italy and France, 1914–2012
Nicola Labanca
Italian War Memorials after the Two World Wars. Notes from a Regional Research Project
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Narrating War in Fascist Empire Cinema
Gustavo Corni
The Story of the War on the Eastern Front in Italy and Germany
Authors
Marco Mondini (b. 1974) studied at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, where he got a Master in History and his PhD (2003) in Contemporary History. He has been a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Padua (2003–2005) and a research fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore (2006–2010). He has also been a visiting professor at the École Normale Superieure of Paris (2006), the University of Lille 3 »Charles de Gaulle« (2009) and the University of Paris-Diderot (2013). Currently, he is a researcher at Istituto Storico Italo Germanico-FBK in Trento, where he is Coordinator of the research project »The First World War 1914–1918«, and he is also an adjunct professor in Contemporary History at the University of Padua. He is member of Scientific Board of the Centre International de Recherche – Historial de la Grande Guerre di Péronne (France) and of Scientific Board of the Centro Interuniversitario di Studi e Ricerche Storico Militari. He is also a scientific consultant for the Struttura di Missione per la commemorazione del centenario della prima guerra mondiale – the Italian governmental department for the WW1 Centenary. His area of research is the cultural history of war in modern Europe and the history of Italian fascism.
- Edited by Marco Mondini
- Edited by Massimo Rospocher
»Cet ouvrage comporte néanmoins l'immense intérêt de présenter de manière synthétique nombre de problématiques, de méthodes et d'exemples pour le traitement des récits de guerre. La diversité des sources et la rigueur avec laquelle elles sont interrogées offrent un excellent aperçu des pistes thématiques et méthodologiques suivies aujourd'hui par une historiographie de la guerre plus dynamique que jamais, ainsi que des apports de l'interdisciplinarité dans ce domaine.« Benjamin Deruelle, in: Annales HSS, 71. Jg, 1/2016
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Other Titles in this Series
Aspekte und Komponenten der städtischen Identität in Italien und Deutschland (14.-16. Jahrhundert).
Aspetti e componenti dell'identià urbana in Italia e in Germania (secoli XIV-XVI).
Volume 12
Praktiken des Widerstandes – Operare la resistenza.
Suppliken, Gravamina und Revolten in Europa (15.-19. Jahrhundert) - Suppliche, gravamina e rivolte in Europa (secoli XV-XIX).
Volume 18
Formen der politischen Kommunikation in Europa vom 15. bis 18. Jahrhundert – Forme della comunicazione politica in Europa nei secoli XV-XVIII.
Bitten, Beschwerden, Briefe - Suppliche, gravamina, lettere.
Volume 14
Die Anfänge des öffentlichen Rechts, 2 – Gli inizi del diritto pubblico, 2.
Von Friedrich Barbarossa zu Friedrich II. - Da Federico I a Federico II.
Volume 21
Memoria – Memoria.
Erinnern und Vergessen in der Kultur des Mittelalters - Ricordare e dimenticare nella cultura del medioevo.
Volume 15
Mit dem Feind tanzen? – Ballare col nemico?
Reaktionen auf die französische Expansion in Europa zwischen Begeisterung und Protest (1792-1815) - Reazioni all'espansione francese in Europa tra entusiasmo e resistenza (1792-1815).
Volume 23
Höfe als Orte der Kommunikation – Le corti come luogo di comunicazione.
Die Habsburger und Italien (16. bis 19. Jahrhundert) - Gli Asburgo e l'Italia (secoli XVI-XIX).
Volume 24
Die Anfänge des öffentlichen Rechts – Gli inizi del diritto pubblico.
Gesetzgebung im Zeitalter Friedrich Barbarossas und das Gelehrte Recht - L'età di Federico Barbarossa: legislazione e scienza del diritto.
Volume 19
Dialogue against Violence.
The Question of Trentino-South Tyrol in the International Context.
Volume 32
Die Anfänge des öffentlichen Rechts, 3 – Gli inizi del diritto pubblico, 3.
Auf dem Weg zur Etablierung des öffentlichen Rechts zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne - Verso la costruzione del diritto pubblico tra medioevo e modernità.
Volume 25
The Protestant Reformation in a Context of Global History.
Religious Reforms and World Civilizations.
Volume 33
Populism, Populists, and the Crisis of Political Parties.
A Comparison of Italy, Austria, and Germany 1990–2015.
Volume 34
