Ian Atherton (Keele University Senior Lecturer in History)

Britons and Their Battlefields

War, Memory, and Commemoration Since the Fourteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9780198912859
• ISBN-10: 0198912854
• Artikelnr.: 71268612

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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