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Great War and Medieval Memory by Stefan Goebel
War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940
A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies.A genuinely comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies in the first half of the twentieth century. Taking public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe. In both countries, the survivors of the Great War pictured the conflict as the 'Last Crusade' and sought consolation in imagery that connected the soldiers of the age of total war with the knights of the Middle Ages. Stefan Goebel shows that medievalism as a mode of war commemoration transcended national and cultural boundaries. This is an invaluable contribution to the burgeoning study of cultural memory and collective remembrance which will appeal to researchers and students in the history of the First World War, social and cultural history of warfare and medieval studies. |
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| Author(s) : Stefan Goebel | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0521854156 | ISBN-13 : 9780521854153 |
| RRP : £50.00 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Studies in the Social & Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 25/01/2007
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page Length : 378mm
Page Size : 235mm