Memories of War in Early Modern England

Abstract

Aims of the SeriesThe early modern period was witness to an incipient process of transculturation through exploration, mercantilism, colonization, and migration that set into motion a process of globalization that continues today. The purpose of this series is to bring together a cultural studies approach -which freely and unapologetically crosses disciplinary, theoretical, and political boundaries -with early modern texts and artefacts that bear the traces of transculturalization and globalization in order to deepen our understanding of sites of exchange between and within early modern culture(s). This process can be studied on a large as well as on a small scale, and this new series is dedicated to both. Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to: texts dealing with mercantilism,

Researching memory in early modern studies

“…Reinscribing the male body as a site of memory allows it to be entered into a culture of postwar mourning and attempted recovery (Purkiss, 2005). The combined impact of memory studies and feminist work on the period has generated a reframing of such concerns, manifest in a shift in terminology from ‘war’, ‘battle’ or ‘military’ to ‘violence, materiality, and temporality’ (Harlan, 2016: 13). In addition to providing a new approach to the construction of masculine identities, this opens up a less causal perspective on war as an inevitable aspect of nation formation, itself a highly gendered process and object of inquiry in the context of early modern studies.…”