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Britons and their Battlefields - Ian Atherton

Britons and their Battlefields

War, Memory, and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century

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Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-891285-9 (ISBN)
CHF 59,95 inkl. MwSt
A history of British attitudes to battlefields and their commemoration over the last 700 years. The book explores and links memory-making practices from across the period to reconsider the ways in which battlefields are commemorated and re-commemorated, both in the immediate aftermath of war and across centuries thereafter.
While much attention has been paid to the commemoration of conflict in the twentieth century, this book is the first to consider conflict memory in the long term, arguing that modern practices were not created out of the mud of the trenches, but evolved from much longer practices. From the fourteenth century to the present day, this work analyses the changing commemoration and memories of British battlefields at home and overseas, from Bannockburn (1314) to Bosworth (1485) to Basra (2003-9).

Across these seven centuries, there has been a series of recurring post-battle rituals that have shaped and continue to shape memories of conflict. Three distinct but overlapping periods of memory can be delineated. In the later Middle Ages battlefields were consecrated by the burial of the fallen and often by the erection of a battlefield cross, or chapel or chantry to pray for the dead. The second phase began with the Protestant Reformation in the 1530s, when pilgrimage and prayers for the dead were abolished, and battlefield chantries were dissolved and many battlefield crosses were demolished. Memories shifted from the dead to the living, especially the bodies of surviving veterans who commemorated the conflict by their wounds, and from soil and stone to print and ink. The third phase began in the eighteenth century when antiquaries and others established new monuments on past battlefields. Monuments to survivors and the dead were established on contemporary battlefields such as Waterloo, once again hailed as sacred ground hallowed by bloodshed, fit destinations for a pilgrimage. Not just officers but ordinary soldiers began to be memorialized by name on the battlefield, culminating in the cult of the names of the dead enshrined by the creation of the War Graves Commission in 1917, and the idea that battlefields should be preserved unchanged as seen in modern heritage management.

Drawing on a wide variety of literary and historical sources and taking a uniquely longue durée approach, the book explores and links memory-making practices from across the period to reconsider the ways in which battlefields are commemorated and re-commemorated. In so doing, it makes a unique contribution to a wide range of historiographical fields: British history since the fourteenth century, memory studies, heritage studies, landscape history, conflict archaeology, and military history.

Dr Ian Atherton is Senior Lecturer in History at Keele University. His research has covered politics and religion in early modern Britain, particularly the English Civil Wars, the commemoration of conflict, and the history of cathedrals and religious change.

Preface
1: Introduction: Battlefields and Memory over Time
Part One. Continuing Customs
2: The Aftermath of Battle
3: The Naming of Parts: Battlefield Naming and Memory
Part Two. Chronological Change
4: Burial and the Battlefield War Memorial in the Late Middle Ages
5: The Reformation of the Battlefield in Early Modern Britain
6: The Rediscovery of the Battlefield in the Eighteenth Century
7: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of the Modern Battlefield
8: 'We Will Remember Them': Battlefield Remembrance and the Cult of the Fallen since 1914
9: Conclusion: The Future of the Past and the Past of the Future

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 2 Tables
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 240 mm
Gewicht 684 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-891285-4 / 0198912854
ISBN-13 978-0-19-891285-9 / 9780198912859
Zustand Neuware
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