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1 online resource |
| Contents |
INTRODUCTIVE SECTION : Do Societies Remember? The Notion of ‘Collective Memory’: Paradigms and Problems from Maurice Halbwachs on / Maurizio Giangiulio -- Memories of Winners and Losers. Historical Remarks on why Societies Remember and Commemorate Wars / Elena Franchi -- Can an Ancient Truth Become an Old Lie? A Few Methodological Remarks Concerning Current Comparative Research on War and its Aftermath / Giorgia Proietti -- SECTION 1: WAR MEMORIALS: OBJECTS IN PERFORMANCE : Commemoration through Objects? Homer on the Limitations of Material Memory / Lilah Grace Canevaro -- Beyond Victory and Defeat. Commemorating Battles prior to the Persian Wars / Birgit Bergmann -- Commemoration of War in Archaic and Classical Greece. Battlefields, Tombs and Sanctuaries / Holger Baitinger -- Memorials of War in Pausanias / James Roy -- The Thirty Years’ War in German Commemorative Culture from the Beginning of the Holy Roman Empire to the Present – An Overview / Nina Fehrlen-Weiss -- Nation Building through Commemoration: Stalinism, WWII, and Holocaust Memorials in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Simone A. Bellezza -- SECTION 2: WAR DEAD: FROM CITIZENS TO SYMBOLS : Courage in War and the Courage of the War Dead – Ancient and Modern Reflections / Mirko Canevaro -- Cognitive Aspects of Funerary Commemoration of Soldiers and Veterans in Roman Poetovio / Blanka Misic -- Commemorating War and War Dead in 18th Century Germany / Johannes Birgfeld -- Brothers and Heroes. Literary Sources on Death in the First World War the Italian Case / Marco Mondini with the collaboration of Cecilia Cozzi -- SECTION 3: NARRATIVES OF WAR: HISTORIOGRAPHY, PUBLIC DISCOURSE, AND CULTURAL MEMORY : Commemoration through Fear: The Spartan Reputation as a Weapon of War / Roel Konijnendijk -- The Memory of the Sacred Wars and Some Origin Stories / Elena Franchi -- Caesar and the Challenge of Commemorating the Battle of Pharsalia / Mark Thorne -- Heroes in aula Dei: Commemorating Wars and the Fallen in the Time of Charlemagne / Giuseppe Albertoni -- Nationalism, the Politics of Memory and Revisionism: German World War I Veterans and their Transnational Relations / Alessandro Salvador |
| Summary |
"Since Bouthoul’s seminal work on polemology (1951), war studies have been increasingly influenced by sociology, psychology and psychoanalysis, memory studies, and even literary theory; while also weathering the storms of the cultural turn and, more generally, postmodernism. These are challenges that raised new questions, or offered new answers. How is war memorialized and commemorated? How do individuals react to war trauma? How are individual reactions and narratives implemented in collective thoughts, narratives and memories? How do societies remember wars, and how do these memories, in turn, affect political structures? How are public commemorations organized? These are some of the questions contemporary war studies are still engaged in. By presenting case studies both ancient and modern, from the ancient Greeks and Romans through medieval and modern times to contemporary history, this volume stimulates reflection on how and why individuals and societies remember and commemorate war."--Publisher description |
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War memorials -- History
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War memorials
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Franchi, Elena
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Proietti, Giorgia
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| ISBN |
3515121781 |
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9783515121781 |
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