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Honour, Memory and Lineage: Remembering the English Civil War through Funeral Memorials

KERRY, CHERYL

History (London), 2022-09, Vol.107 (377), p.651-671 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Honour, Memory and Lineage: Remembering the English Civil War through Funeral Memorials
Autor: KERRY, CHERYL
Assuntos: Fractured ; Funerals ; Honour ; Legislatures ; Memorials ; Memories ; Memory ; Monarchy ; War
É parte de: History (London), 2022-09, Vol.107 (377), p.651-671
Notas: I would like to thank Joel Halcomb for his guidance and support in bringing my first article together. Thank you to those who attended my paper presenting these ideas at the UEA and their help in shaping this article.
Descrição: The Act of Oblivion passed in 1660 was meant to signal how the fractured kingdom could heal after the Civil War. It aimed to ‘bury all seeds of future discords’ by wiping the slate clean, outlawing even ‘terms of distinction [and] … words of reproach any way tending to revive the memory of the late differences’. The act was created to draw a line under the past twenty years of civil war, regicide, and bitter religious, political and cultural divisions. But could an act of parliament so easily erase this traumatic past? The impact of the war on families and communities proved impossible to forget, and memories of loyalties to both monarchy and parliament enabled the civil war to continue through other means than the sword. Individuals and families used funeral memorials to tell stories of their part in the wars.
Editor: London: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Idioma: Inglês

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