Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Bloody Meadows: Investigating Landscapes of Battle

0/5 ( ratings)

Battles, as events, are a major focus of military history in all periods, and battlefield sites are increasingly being taken up as part of the nation's cultural heritage. "Bloody Meadows" goes behind the particular discoveries revealed by site excavation and any information that the landscape may reveal about the sequence of events in battle. By investigating the places themselves it shows that we can develop an insight into the minds of those who fought in the past and into some of our own assumptions and expectations about war. The book reveals differences in landscape type between battlefields from the tenth to nineteenth century in Britain, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal. It shows a clear shift in landscape preference, especially from a medieval preference for high ground near towns to a later one for low ground away from towns; in the nineteenth century this changed to a preference for spaces containing a number of distinct types of features: settlements, high and low ground and watercourses. Ultimately, the authors ask what it means for these sites to have been remembered as significant places for national heritage and what we can learn from them about the nature of war.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Sutton Publishing

Release: May 31, 2006

ISBN: 0750937343

ISBN 13: 9780750937344

Bloody Meadows: Investigating Landscapes of Battle

0/5 ( ratings)

Battles, as events, are a major focus of military history in all periods, and battlefield sites are increasingly being taken up as part of the nation's cultural heritage. "Bloody Meadows" goes behind the particular discoveries revealed by site excavation and any information that the landscape may reveal about the sequence of events in battle. By investigating the places themselves it shows that we can develop an insight into the minds of those who fought in the past and into some of our own assumptions and expectations about war. The book reveals differences in landscape type between battlefields from the tenth to nineteenth century in Britain, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal. It shows a clear shift in landscape preference, especially from a medieval preference for high ground near towns to a later one for low ground away from towns; in the nineteenth century this changed to a preference for spaces containing a number of distinct types of features: settlements, high and low ground and watercourses. Ultimately, the authors ask what it means for these sites to have been remembered as significant places for national heritage and what we can learn from them about the nature of war.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Sutton Publishing

Release: May 31, 2006

ISBN: 0750937343

ISBN 13: 9780750937344

More books from John Carman

Heritage Studies: Methods and Approaches

The Tamil Veda: Pillan's Interpretation of the Tiruvaymoli

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Battlefields from Event to Heritage

Archaeologies of Conflict

Archaeology and Heritage: An Introduction

Against Cultural Property: Archaeology,Heritage and Ownership (Debates in Archaeology)

Archaeological Practice in Great Britain: A Heritage Handbook (World Archaeological Congress Cultural Heritage Manual Series)

Archaeological Practice in Great Britain: A Heritage Handbook

A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics

How the Earth's Plate Tectonic Cycle Works

Managing Archaeology (Theoretical Archaeology Group S)

Heritage Studies: Methods and Approaches

Archaeological Resource Management: An International Perspective

Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past

Valuing Ancient Things

Material Harm

Ancient Warfare

Rate this book!

Write a review?