Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALISON COOLEY
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Roman World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
War Dead

This chapter examines Roman attitudes towards the commemoration of those killed on campaign. In general, there is a lack in Roman public monuments recording the names of those who died in action, but two notable exceptions are explored here: Cicero’s proposal to commemorate the dead of the Civil War, and the monuments at Adamclissi in Dacia. The chapter goes on to discuss other ways in which war, and the casualties of war, were commemorated in Rome, in particular through the incorporation of the anniversaries of significant military events into the city’s religious calendar.

The “Ghastly Spectacle”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Finseth
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Ethical Challenge ◽  
The Dead ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Social Logic

This chapter focuses on how witneᶊes to Civil War death made sense of their traumatic experience. The ethical challenge was one of recognition: to see and know the often-anonymous dead for who and what they were. Yet the dead were invariably integrated into familiar frameworks of meaning and into the conventions of aesthetics and rhetoric. Drawing on insights from phenomenology, pragmatism, Freudian psychology, and affect theory, the chapter shows that the psychological proceᶊes of abstraction and typification underlay a social logic of necrophilic dependency that both thrived on the dead and yet resisted their complex individuality. This problem is then connected to a long-standing cultural and historical melancholia whereby the Civil War dead have been internalized and eternalized as representational artifacts within a society that remains divided and ambivalent over the meaning of the war.

The Civil War Dead and American Modernity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Finseth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Complex ◽  
Moral Conflicts ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
The Dead ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Civil War Era ◽  
American Society

Tracing the Civil War dead’s representational afterlife acroᶊ an array of historical, visual, and literary documents from 1861 to 1914, this book shows that they played a central, complex, and paradoxical role in how Americans understood the “modernity” of the United States. Amid the turbulence of the postbellum era, the dead provided an illusion of coherence, intelligibility, and continuity in the national self, and yet they also focalized American society’s central philosophical and moral conflicts. Recirculated through the networks of information and meaning by which a culture understands and creates itself, they functioned, and continue to function, as a form of symbolic currency in a memorial economy linking the Civil War era to the present. Reconstructing the strategies by which postwar American society reimagined the Civil War dead, this book argues that a strain of critical thought was alert to this necropolitical dynamic from the very years of the war itself.

Living with Ghosts

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Ongoing Relationship ◽  
The Dead ◽  
War Dead

Although more than three decades have passed since Guatemala’s 36-year-long civil war, bereavement and posttraumatic stress continue to affect many survivors of that dark era, especially since it is only now that a few of the most infamous perpetrators of the violence have recently, if briefly, been brought to justice. The Maya were especially severely affected by the massacres and disappearances of the armed conflict. Because the ongoing relationship between the dead and the living that Maya value requires that the deceased receive proper burial, the exhumation and reburial of war dead have had cathartic effects for the survivors and have actively contributed to the construction of historical memory. Aunque han pasado más de tres décadas desde la guerra civil de 36 años en Guatemala, la aflicción por la pérdida de seres queridos y el estrés post traumático continúan afectando a muchos sobrevivientes de esa era oscura, especialmente porque es sólo hasta hace poco que algunos de los más infames autores de la violencia han sido llevados ante los trbunales aunque sólo brevemente. Los mayas especialmente fueron gravemente afectados por las masacres y las desapariciones del conflicto armado. Ya que la relación existente entre los muertos y los vivos que los mayas valoran requiere que los muertos reciban una digna sepultura, la exhumación y el nuevo entierro de los muertos en la guerra han tenido efectos catárticos en los sobrevivientes y han contribuido activamente a construir la memoria histórica.

Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation

2006 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 685
Author(s):  
Susan-Mary Grant ◽  
John R. Neff
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
War Dead

scholarly journals Предательство человечности. Красный террор большевиков в Крыму во время гражданской войны 1918–1920 гг. в повести Ивана Шмелева „Солнце мертвых”

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 383-396
Author(s):  
Svetlana Kravchenko
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Extreme Situation ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Rich

[Betrayal of humanity. The red terror of the Bolsheviks in Crimea during the civil war in 1918–1920 in the light of Ivan Szmielev’s novel “The Sun of the Dead”] The article analyzes the novel by the Russian writer Ivan Szmielev “The Sun of the Dead” (1923). It was written on the basis of historical events. I analyze the composition of the work, which is based on two symbols – the sun and death. The sun symbolizes the rich and beautiful Crimea, and deathis a symbol of the new power – the power of the Bolsheviks who destroyed this wonderful land of Crimea. The author of the article emphasizes the autobiographical nature of the story “The Sun of the Dead”. Its narration is based on a firstperson story by Ivan Szmielev. This is a feature of lyrical prose. Describing the tragic events of total red terror, hunger and the struggle for survival, Ivan Szmielevs howsthat death affects everyone – people, animals, birds, trees, plants. The author of the article also emphasizes the philosophical and humanistic aspect of the work, which shows the history of humanity and human survival in an extreme situation, when very few are lucky enough to resist and not become victims of brutal murders of the Bolsheviks or starvation. In the process of the story, the image of the desert appears – a metaphor with which the writer emphasizes the scale of the destructive activity of the Bolsheviks.

Dreaming of Death and the Dead in the Stuart Political World Imaginary

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-195
Author(s):  
Carole Levin
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
Political World ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Close Friendship ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Political Pamphlets

Abstract William Laud played a critical role in the politics and religion in the reign of James I and especially that of his son, Charles I. There was great antagonism toward him by Puritans, and Laud’s close friendship with George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, made Laud even more controversial, as did his fight with the king’s jester, Archy Armstrong. Dreams were seen as having great significance at time of Laud, and Laud recorded his dreams in his journal. Dreams also played a role in the early Stuart political world. This essay examines how Laud’s enemies used his own dreams against him in the work of William Prynne, once Laud was arrested during the English Civil war. It also looks at how Laud was compared to also despised Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey in a number of political pamphlets that used dreams, such as Archy’s Dream and Canterburie’s Dream. Laud also appeared as a character in a dream of Charles I’s attendant Thomas Herbert the night before the king’s execution, where Laud came to comfort Charles.

The Land of Misfit Relics

2018 ◽  
pp. 113-120
Author(s):  
Chad Seales
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Civil War ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Communal Violence ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Dead

This chapter addresses the fascinations of Protestants with certain “relics” of racial, political, and communal violence. In contrast to Catholicism, blatant Protestant relics are rare. While the ones they have are significant, there are not enough of them to comprise a Protestant tradition of devotional use of relics. However, there are southern Protestants who have had two major sources of relics as understood as the sacred remains of the dead: those produced by death in the Civil War and those made through the lynching deaths of African Americans. There are three possible options for the presence and persistence of religious relics in popular culture. The first is the importance of religious relics to subcultural memory. The second is the significance of religious relics to the cultural production and ritual construction of racial difference. The third is the power of those relics to resurface and strain against historical amnesia.

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