[publicclassics] Commemorating war and war dead. Ancient and modern

[Giorgia Proietti]

We are pleased to announce the publication of the volume
*Commemorating war and war dead. Ancient and modern*, eds. M. Giangiulio,
E. Franchi, G. Proietti, Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart 2019.

PREFACE (Gustavo Corni) 9-13

FOREWORD (Maurizio Giangiulio, Elena Franchi, Giorgia Proietti) 13-15

INTRODUCTIVE SECTION

(Maurizio Giangiulio) Do Societies Remember? The Notion of ‘Collective
Memory’: Paradigms and Problems (from Maurice Halbwachs on) 17-35

(Elena Franchi) Memories of Winners and Losers. Historical Remarks on why
Societies Remember and Commemorate Wars 35-71

(Giorgia Proietti) Can an Ancient Truth Become an Old Lie? A Few
Methodological Remarks Concerning Current Comparative Research on War and
its Aftermath 71-93

SECTION I: WAR MEMORIALS: OBJECTS IN PERFORMANCE

(Lilah Grace Canevaro) Commemoration through Objects? Homer on the
Limitations of Material Memory 95-111

(Birgit Bergmann) Beyond Victory and Defeat. Commemorating Battles prior to
the Persian Wars 111-131

(Holger Baitinger) Commemoration of War in Archaic and Classical Greece.
Battlefields, Tombs and Sanctuaries 131-147

(James Roy) Memorials of War in Pausanias 147-157

(Nina Fehrlen-Weiss) The Thirty Years’ War in German Commemorative Culture
from the Beginning of the Holy Roman Empire to the Present – An Overview
157-171

(Simone A. Bellezza) Nation Building through Commemoration: Stalinism,
WWII, and Holocaust Memorials in Post-Soviet Ukraine 171-185

SECTION II: WAR DEAD: FROM CITIZENS TO SYMBOLS

(Mirko Canevaro) Courage in War and the Courage of the War Dead – Ancient
and Modern Reflections 187-207

(Blanka Misic) Cognitive Aspects of Funerary Commemoration of Soldiers and
Veterans in Roman Poetovio 207-219

(Johannes Birgfeld) Commemorating War and War Dead in 18th Century Germany
219-239

(Marco Mondini (with the collaboration of Cecilia Cozzi)) Brothers and
Heroes. Literary Sources on Death in the First World War (the Italian Case)
239-255

SECTION III: NARRATIVES OF WAR:HISTORIOGRAPHY, PUBLIC DISCOURSE,AND
CULTURAL MEMORY

(Roel Konijnendijk) Commemoration through Fear: The Spartan Reputation as a
Weapon of War 257-271

(Elena Franchi) The Memory of the Sacred Wars and Some Origin Stories
271-287

(Mark Thorne) Caesar and the Challenge of Commemorating the Battle of
Pharsalia 287-301

(Giuseppe Albertoni) Heroes in aula Dei: Commemorating Wars and the Fallen
in the Time of Charlemagne 301-319

(Alessandro Salvador) Nationalism, the Politics of Memory and Revisionism:
German World War I Veterans and their Transnational Relations 319-335

CONCLUSIVE SECTION

(Mirko Canevaro) Conclusive Remarks 337-345

ABSTRACTS AND KEYWORDS 345-355

CONTRIBUTORS 355-359

INDEX 359-

-- 
Dr. Giorgia Proietti
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Greek History
Department of Humanities
Univ. of Trento (IT)

https://unitn.academia.edu/GiorgiaProietti
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