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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] War, Bodies and Vulnerability in a Historical Perspective, 1500-1940
DESCRIPTION:What does war do to the body? And how do corporeality and notions of the body influence war? This section examines the interactions between war and the body from a cross-epochal perspective.
Early modern concepts of the body differed from modern ones primarily in the permeability and porosity of the boundary between inside and outside. Mind, soul and body seemed inextricably intertwined. Medical historical works have been able to show how disease in the pre-modern era was anchored in the body but often experienced as a manifestation of social conflict or spiritual trials. An analytical separation of physical and psychological pathologies only began to seem meaningful during the Enlightenment but remained imprecise.
In war, bodies are resources of struggle, sites of experience, media of violence and objects of discipline. They are thereby fundamentally marked by their vulnerability. War shapes the body, and it can destroy it. In the course of modern times, soldierly bodies became more and more disciplined. Ideals of masculine corporeality shaped by drill became increasingly important, especially during the Napoleonic Wars. Bodies were the capital of men of war and were sold, but they also became more and more something the state demanded men to use. However, when the body no longer played along, it drew a line that actors could use for their advantage. Vulnerability sometimes also provided the basis for resistance and resilience.
The section investigates to what extent experiences of war violence and dealing with injuries depended on different conceptualizations of the body. In doing so, the lectures range from the 16th to the early 20th century, exploring continuity and change in the relationship between war and body and thus also put the epochal boundary pre-modern/modern up for discussion.
Der Beitrag War, Bodies and Vulnerability in a Historical Perspective, 1500-1940 erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2023.
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