English | 2022 | PDF | 3 MB | 210 Pages
Owen Rees, Kathryn Hurlock, Jason Crowley
ISBNs: B0BL2NDS5M, 3031099478, 303109946X, 978-3031099465, 9783031099465, 978-3031099472, 9783031099472, 978-3-031-09946-5, 978-3-031-09947-2
This book examines the lasting impact of
war on individuals and their communities in pre-modern Europe. Research
on combat stress in the modern era regularly draws upon the past for
inspiration and validation, but to date no single volume has effectively
scrutinised the universal nature of combat stress and its associated
modern diagnoses. Highlighting the methodological obstacles of using
modern medical and psychological models to understand pre-modern
experiences, this book challenges existing studies and presents
innovative new directions for future research. With cutting-edge
contributions from experts in history, classics and medical humanities,
the collection has a broad chronological focus, covering periods from
Archaic Greece (c. sixth and early fifth century BCE) to the British
Civil Wars (seventeenth century CE). Topics range from the
methodological, such as the dangers of retrospective diagnosis and the
applicability of Moral Injury to the past, to the conventionally
historical, examining how combat stress and post-traumatic stress
disorder may or may not have manifested in different time periods. With
chapters focusing on combatants, women, children and the collective
trauma of their communities, this collection will be of great interest
to those researching the history of mental health in the pre-modern
period.
