Bowen, Lloyd ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3458-4740 and Stoyle, Mark 2021. Remembering the English Civil Wars. Remembering the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, London: Routledge. |
Abstract
Over the past twenty years there has been a surge of interest in the way that the English Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century – perhaps the most calamitous series of conflicts in the country’s recorded history – were remembered by the men, women and children who were unfortunate enough to live through them. The essays brought together in this book – which is the first edited collection to be devoted specifically to the memory of the Civil Wars - not only provide a clear and accessible introduction to this fast-developing field of study but also bring together the voices of a diverse group of scholars who are working at its cutting edge. Through the investigation of a broad, but closely interrelated, range of topics – including elite, popular, urban and local memories of the wars, as well as the relationships between civil war memory and ceremony, material culture and concepts of space and place – the essays contained in this volume demonstrate, with exceptional vividness and clarity, how the people of England and Wales continued to be haunted by the ghosts of the mid-century conflict throughout the decades which followed.
Item Type: | Book |
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Book Type: | Edited Book |
Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | History, Archaeology and Religion |
Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
Publisher: | Routledge |
ISBN: | 9780367467111 |
Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2022 10:30 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/147038 |
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