Looking at war, we see how the intense experience of conflict and its aftermath were negotiated through spirit tropes, how these lessons were applied to wider society’s morality and how war was a catalyst for ghost belief. Emphasising the importance of place within legend telling and ghost stories, it recreates a landscape of memory whose bounds, both physical and moral, were patrolled by spirits. Stressing continuities between the medieval period and what followed, it shows how ghosts continued to embody anxieties of place, experience and morality.
It reconstructs an enchanted world, one where ghosts and spirits were not tied down to simple Catholic or Protestant tropes but were more multifaceted than previous studies have shown. This thesis focuses on themes of place and war in the development of ghostlore in Early Modern Protestant Germany and England.
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