Vom Kontingent des Deutschen Bundes zur bewaffneten Macht eines neutralen Kleinstaates: Luxemburgs Militär 1830 bis 1881

in Kolnberger, Thomas; Niederkorn, Benoit (Eds.) Militärgeschichte Luxemburgs. Grundzüge einer transnationalen Entwicklung von Militär, Krieg und Gesellschaft (2022)

Die Luxemburger Miliz im Militär des Königreiches der Vereinigten Niederlande (1815-1830/39)

in Niederkorn, Benoit; Kolnberger, Thomas (Eds.) Militärgeschichte Luxemburgs. Grundzüge einer transnationalen Entwicklung von Militär, Krieg und Gesellschaft (2022)

The Materiality and Spatiality of Death, Burial and Commemoration

Book published by Routledge (2022)

Introduction: The materiality and spatiality of death, burial and commemoration Christoph Klaus Streb and Thomas Kolnberger 1. Post-medieval burial customs in Germany – an archaeological perspective on ... [more ▼]

Introduction: The materiality and spatiality of death, burial and commemoration Christoph Klaus Streb and Thomas Kolnberger 1. Post-medieval burial customs in Germany – an archaeological perspective on materiality and spatiality Hauke Kenzler 2. Charnel practices in medieval England: new perspectives Elizabeth Craig-Atkins, Jennifer Crangle, P. S. Barnwell, Dawn M. Hadley, Allan T. Adams, Ian Atkins, Jessica-Rose McGinn, and Alice James 3. Material specificity and cultural agency: the mummies of the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily Natalie Polzer 4. Embalming and the materiality of death (France, nineteenth century) Anne Carol 5. Ephemeral materiality: a place for lifeless infants in cemeteries Philippe Charrier and Gaëlle Clavandier 6. The unnaturalness of natural burials: dispossessing the dispossessed Anna-Katharina Balonier, Elizabeth Parsons and Anthony Patterson 7. Materiality and the body: explorations at the end of life Thorsten Benkel and Matthias Meitzler [less ▲]

Transnational soldiering, burial and commemoration across borders. The case of Luxembourgers in the French Foreign Legion

in Francia: Forschungen zur Westeuropäischen Geschichte. 3, 19./20. Jahrhundert (2022), 49

To whom do the dead belong? The French Foreign Legion exemplifies a modern military conundrum: how to reconcile loyal and patriotic duty with mercenary service or, in neutral terms, military labour. This ... [more ▼]

To whom do the dead belong? The French Foreign Legion exemplifies a modern military conundrum: how to reconcile loyal and patriotic duty with mercenary service or, in neutral terms, military labour. This article investigates soldierly funeral culture in the long nineteenth century, with a focus on the entangled histories of Luxembourg and France. The Foreign Legion’s transnational recruitment makes this armed force a unique case study to explore military commemoration across state borders, honouring the dead and the living alike. Since its establishment to fight outside mainland France, rooted in the conquest of Algeria (1830–1857), the Legion has been the only branch of the French military whose members swear allegiance not to France, but to the corps itself: its motto is Legio Patria Nostra (»The Legion is our Homeland«). As a military parallel society and temporary »ersatz nation«, the Legion has elaborated a specific death cult, which has both a corporeal (body-centred, individual) and a sur-real (transcendent, communal) dimension. The two dimensions cannot be rigidly delimited: they clearly overlap and can be shared with other nations, as the case of Luxembourg demonstrates. [less ▲]

Entre 'dette du sang' et 'military labour migration': les Luxembourgeois engagés dans la Légion étrangère (1831-1914)

in Revue Historique des Armées (2021), 302

Co-Creating Ritual Spaces and Communities: An Analysis of Municipial Cemetery Tongerseweg, Maastricht, 1812-2020

in Religions (2020), 11(9), 435

Cemeteries have been viewed in opposed ways as ritual spaces that either mirror society or present an idealized model of society. In this article, we propose an analysis of cemeteries as ritual spaces ... [more ▼]

Cemeteries have been viewed in opposed ways as ritual spaces that either mirror society or present an idealized model of society. In this article, we propose an analysis of cemeteries as ritual spaces, focused on the case study of municipal cemetery Tongerseweg in Maastricht, among the most important monumental cemeteries still in active use in The Netherlands today. Drawing on historical as well as interview material, spatial and ritual studies, the authors argue for a new “Arena Model” to understand cemeteries as dynamic ritual spaces. Cemeteries do not only form an ensemble of ritual spaces that are reliant on pre-existing communities, they also evoke, produce and maintain communities. Codeterminants are the physical layout and a wide range of ritual markers that variously underscore, mitigate or even contradict the communities created by the spatial layout. Important actors pertain to municipal politics and administration as well as the users, their respective allies and service providers. The article further analyses the wide range of competing values that help to shape a cycle of cocreating plural ritual spaces as well as communities [less ▲]

Continuity and change: Transformations in the urban history of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

in Kurfürst, Sandra; Wehner, Stefanie (Eds.) Southeast Asian Transformations. Urban and Rural Developments in the 21st Century (2020)

Gesonderte Ruhestätten für besondere Tote: Soldatengräber und Garnisonsfriedhöfe unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entwicklung in Luxemburg

in Loew, Benedikt; Thewes, Guy; Klauck, Hans Peter (Eds.) Intra muros - Infrastruktur und Lebensalltag in Festungen - Einrichtungen der Fürsorge (2020)

Friedhof, Heldenhain oder Totenburg? Der Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge und die Soldatenfriedhöfe Sandweiler und Clausen im Großherzogtum Luxemburg.

in Philippart, Robert L.; Reuter, Antoinette; Kmec, Sonja (Eds.) Ewige Ruhe? Concession à perpétuité? - Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarregionen - Cultures funéraires au Luxembourg et dans les régions voisines (2019)

The material culture of burial and its microgeography: A Luxembourg cemetery as a methodological example of an object-centred approach to quantitative material culture studies

in Journal of Material Culture (2019), 24(2), 1-26

This article uses a novel quantitative methodology to examine sepulchral material culture. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of social spatialization and art as agency, the authors contend that ... [more ▼]

This article uses a novel quantitative methodology to examine sepulchral material culture. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of social spatialization and art as agency, the authors contend that variations in grave designs and materiality cannot simply be explained in terms of changes in fashion and mentality. Other factors also need to be taken into account. Using a digital data collection tool, the Cemetery Surveyor Application (CSA) developed at the University of Luxembourg, they compile a set of data encompassing all the material aspects of each grave in a cemetery in Luxembourg (Western Europe), the setting of their case study. The graves are dated from the 1850s to 2015. |The authors compare the chronological evolution of the most recurrent material features with a GIS-based spatial analysis of the same features. The results of the spatial analysis not only largely confirm the chronological study, but also allow them to be more precise (dating is often problematic) and include undated graves (a third of the sample). The digital data collection tool also allows them to compare cemeteries and to highlight variations in these that cannot merely be imputed to chronology, but also to spatial proximity and material agency. [less ▲]