Commemorating Conflict and the Ancient British Past in Augustan Britain

This article locates the roots of much current memorialising practice in the early eighteenth century, when medieval traditions of commemorating conflict through erecting memorials on battlefields were revived. Through an examination of two cases, a memorial to the fifth‐century Alleluia Victory ere...

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Published in:Journal for eighteenth-century studies 2013-09, Vol.36 (3), p.377-393
Main Author: ATHERTON, IAN
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alleluia Victory
ancient Britons
Battlefield commemoration
British and Welsh identity
Edgehill
History
Memorials & monuments
Military engagements
Nehemiah Griffith
political gardening
Sanderson Miller
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Summary:This article locates the roots of much current memorialising practice in the early eighteenth century, when medieval traditions of commemorating conflict through erecting memorials on battlefields were revived. Through an examination of two cases, a memorial to the fifth‐century Alleluia Victory erected in 1736 by Nehemiah Griffith (which can be compared with his poems) and Sanderson Miller's mid‐eighteenth‐century designed landscape to commemorate the battle of Edgehill (1642), the article also examines the use in such memorials of figures and languages from the ancient British and Saxon pasts to celebrate ideas of British and Protestant liberty and identity.
ISSN:1754-0194
1754-0208
DOI:10.1111/1754-0208.12000