Name: The English Civil War: Myth, Legend and Popular Memory
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Author: Esdaile, Charles J.
ISBN: 9781399037488

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The English Civil War: Myth, Legend and Popular Memory

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Author

Charles J. Esdaile

Publisher

Pen & Sword Military

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781399037488

Synopsis "The English Civil War: Myth, Legend and Popular Memory"

Cavaliers and Roundheads are figures who appear in hundreds of English ghost stories. In this innovative account, Charles Esdaile argues that such tales are in reality folk memories of an episode of English history that was second only to the Black Death in terms of individual and collective suffering alike, and, further, that they reveal important truths about the way in which the conflict was represented: it is no surprise, then, to find that spectral Cavaliers are often romantic figures and revenant Roundheads grim ones full of menace. Yet, the book is no mere catalogue. On the contrary, rather than being discussed in a vacuum, the tales of haunting are rather set within a detailed regional history of the conflicts of 1642-1651 of a sort that has never yet been attempted, but is, for all that, badly needed.

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