THE GREAT WAR AND MEDIEVAL MEMORY by Stefan Goebel ( 9780521854153 )

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Title:

THE GREAT WAR AND MEDIEVAL MEMORY
WAR, REMEMBRANCE AND MEDIEVALISM IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY, 1914-1940

By:

Stefan Goebel

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521854156

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9780521854153

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

25 January, 2007

Series:

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare No. 23

Pages:

380

Description:

A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies.

Synopsis:

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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Cambridge University Press

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