Violence, Trauma, and Memory

Nicholas Ealy is professor of English and modern languages at the University of Hartford. Alexandra Onuf is associate professor and chair of the art history department in the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford.

Violence, Trauma, and Memory: Responses to War in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World showcases the richness of the archive in premodern Continental and Colonial Europe for contemporary reflection about the forms, strategies, and effects of cultural memory in the wake of traumatic events. Its expertly researched and well-written essays span a range of representational genres and linguistic traditions, offering stimulating close readings that never lose sight of the larger questions that lend the volume both its coherence and its import.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Alexandra Onuf and Nicholas EalySection One: FranceChapter One: Memorializing the Battle of Crécy: Colins de Beaumont’s “On the Crécy Dead” as a Textual Monument for Processing Trauma, Kimberly LiftonChapter Two: “Je hé guerre, point ne la doit prisier”: Emotions, War, and Trauma in the Poetry of Charles of Orléans, Charles-Louis Morand-MétivierChapter Three: Bringing up the Dead: The Grotesque in Literature after the French Wars of Religion, Kathleen LongSection Two: The Hispanic WorldChapter Four: Desire, Trauma, and Warfare in Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina, Nicholas EalyChapter Five: Violence in the Making: Remembering the Viceroy’s Assassination during the Catalan Revolt of 1640, Ivan Gracia-ArnauChapter Six: Trauma and Postmemory in Martín Cortés’s Uprising, Covadonga Lamar PrietoSection Three: The Dutch RepublicChapter Seven: Hendrick Goltzius’s Lucretia and the Eighty Years’ War, Rachel WiseChapter Eight: Landscape and the Memory of