Introduction -- Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800: Practices, experience, imagination by Erika Kuijpers and Cornelis van der Haven -- Part I: The Military: Emotional Practices and Community -- 1. Drill and Allocution as Emotional Practices in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Poetry, Plays and Military Treatises. Cornelis van der Haven -- 2. Magical Swords and Heavenly Weapons: Battlefield Fear(lessness) in the Seventeenth Century. Andreas Bähr -- 3. Emotions, Imagination and Surgery: Wounded Warriors in the Work of Ambroise Paré and Johan van Beverwijck. Bettina Noak -- 4. Fear, Honour and Emotional Control on the Eighteenth-Century Battlefield. Ilya Berkovich -- Reflections I. Early Modern Jokes on Fearing Soldiers. Johan Verberckmoes -- Part II: The Combatant: Emotional Experience and Writing -- 5. 'His Courage Produced More Fear in His Enemies than Shame in His Soldiers': Siege Combat and Emotional Display in the French Wars of Religion. Brian Sandberg -- 6. Emotions in the Making: The Transformation of Battlefield Experiences During the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). Marian Füssel -- 7. Mediated Battlefields of the French Revolution and Emotives at Work. Ian Germani -- Reflections II. Whose Battlefield Emotion? Mary A. Favret -- Part III: The Public: Emotional Re-Creation -- 8. The Sidelong Glance: Tracing Battlefield Emotions in Dutch Art of the Golden Age. Lisa de Boer -- 9. Deflecting the Fire of Eighteenth-Century French Battle Painting. Valerie Mainz -- 10. Picturing Valenciennes: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg and the Emotional Regulation of British Military Art in the 1790s. Philip Shaw -- Conclusions and perspectives -- Battlefield Emotions in Early Modern Europe: Trends, Key Issues and Blind Spots. Dorothee Sturkenboom -- List of Authors .