Walking the line between past and present: ‘Doing’ phenomenology on historic battlefields

Abstract

The purpose of the Bloody Meadows Project1 (Carman and Carman 2006a, b, 2007, 2009) is to investigate historic battlefields of all periods, and we choose to do so from a broadly ‘phenomenological’ perspective. Our aim is specifically not to recreate what the battlefield was like on the day of battle or the events of that day, but rather to explore the historicity of particular kinds of places through the experience of being there.