Britons and their battlefields : war, memory, and commemoration since the fourteenth century

Britons and their battlefields war, memory, and commemoration since the fourteenth century

"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 fou...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Atherton, Ian, autor (autor)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press [2024]
Subjects:
Arqueología militar > Gran Bretaña.
Batallas > Gran Bretaña
Campos de batalla > Gran Bretaña > Historia.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Britons and their Battlefields: War, Memory, and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Contents
  • 1: Introduction: Battlefields and Memory over Time
  • Part I: Continuing Customs
  • 2: The Aftermath of Battle
  • Ways of Understanding the Post-Bellum Battlefield
  • Post-Battle Processes
  • Conclusion
  • 3: The Naming of Parts: Battlefield Naming and Memory
  • A Typology of the Naming of Battles
  • Parts and the Whole: Naming Battlefield Features and Naming Wars
  • The Process of Naming
  • Bureaucratizing the Battle Name: The Battles Nomenclature Committee
  • Transferring the Name: Battle Names beyond the Battlefield
  • Conclusion: Battle Names, Remembering, and the Invention of Memory
  • Part II: Chronological Change
  • 4: Burial and the Battlefield War Memorial in the Late Middle Ages
  • Burial as a Post-Bellum Ritual
  • Battlefield Chapels
  • The Memoryscape of a Battlefield: Neville's Cross
  • Conclusion
  • 5: The Reformation of the Battlefield in Early Modern Britain
  • The End of a Custom
  • The Reformation of Memory
  • Battlefield Burial
  • The Absence of Battlefield Memorials
  • The Memory of Battlefields
  • From the Soil to the Body
  • From the Dead to the Living
  • From Blood to Ink
  • Conclusion
  • 6: The Rediscovery of the Battlefield in the Eighteenth Century
  • The Boyne Obelisk, 1736
  • New Battlefield Memorials, 1720-40
  • The Alleluia Monument, 1736
  • Eighteenth-Century Battlefield Monuments, Liberty, and the Past
  • Battlefield Visiting: From Landscapes of Fame to Emotional Landscapes
  • Eighteenth-Century Memory Cultures
  • Conclusion
  • 7: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of the Modern Battlefield
  • Battlefields and the Invention of Folklore
  • Battlefield Burial: Waterloo and the Crimea
  • The Revolution in Military Memorialization, and the Nineteenth-Century Battlefield
  • Memorialization, Memory, and the Battlefields of the Distant Past
  • Battlefield Tourism in the Nineteenth Century
  • Visiting and Visible Traces
  • Locating and Preserving the Field
  • The Names of the Dead
  • Battlefield Visiting and the Construction of British Identity before 1914
  • Conclusion
  • 8: 'We Will Remember Them': Battlefield Remembrance and the Cult of the Fallen since 1914
  • The Creation of the Imperial War Graves Commission
  • The Principle of Permanence
  • Battlefield Burial
  • Uniformity of Treatment
  • State Control
  • Hyper-Necronominalism
  • Cemeteries as Gardens
  • Visiting the Battlefields of the Twentieth Century
  • Commemorating Pre-1914 Battlefields in the Modern World
  • The Falklands War
  • Fromelles
  • Bosworth
  • Conclusion
  • 9: Conclusion: The Future of the Past and the Past of the Future
  • Future Directions
  • Index

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