The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940

TitleThe Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsGoebel, Stefan
Number of Pages357
PublisherCambridge University Press
CityCambridge
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This volume is a 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. The author shows that medievalism as a mode of war commemoration transcended national and cultural boundaries. 

URLhttps://www.cambridge.org/fr/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-european-history/great-war-and-medieval-memory-war-remembrance-and-medievalism-britain-and-germany-19141940?format=HB&isbn=9780521854153
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