THE GREAT WAR IN PHALERISTICS: I INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM PROCEEDINGS. HUMBERTO NUNO DE OLIVEIRA, JOSÉ VICENTE DE BRAGANÇA, PAULO JORGE ESTRELA (EDITORS). LISBON: ACADEMIA FALERÍSTICA DE PORTUGAL, 2014. DE 24X17 CM. COM 416 PÁGS. ILUST. E.
The Colloquium aimed at examining and discussing the impact of the Great War in Phaleristics mainly of the military and campaign medals and of other decorations created or awarded by the belligerent Nations in relation with the War, in an historical perspective, with particular emphasis on recent research and innovative approaches.
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Indeed, the papers presented and discussed at the Colloquium, now published, despite its spatial and temporal thematic boundaries, highlight the prominent role that historic contextualization, thorough research of the sources and critical analysis play, in the scientific and epistemological development of Phaleristics.
Edição de muito esmerada realização gráfica, estampada a cores sobre papel couché, ilustrada com reproduções fotograficas que mostram com grande detalhe centenas de medalhas. Cartonagem editorial.
Nota: pequeno defeito no canto inferior direito da contracapa
CONTENTS
Foreword
CHAPTER I – THE WAR CROSSES
La création de la Croix de Guerre Française
Jean-François Dubos.
L’invention de la Croix de Guerre Belge en 1915
Eric Maria Tripnaux-Monin
Portuguese War Cross. A democratic and popular mark for bravery
Nuno de Oliveira and Tiago Gomes Flôr
CHAPTER II – NEW MEDALS AND DECORATIONS
The impact of the First World War on the Belgium rewards system
Pat Van Hoorebeke
The Phaleristic impact of the Great war on Indian Military and
Civilian society
Edward S. Haynes
The Order of the Tower and Sword in the Great War
José Vicente de Bragança
World War I and the creation of an American Awards system
Fred Borch
CHAPTER III – CAMPAIGN MEDALS
The Commemoration Belgian Medal for the African Campaign 1914-1916
Guy Deploige and Philippe Jacquij
The Portuguese Campaigns Commemorative Medal and the Great
War Combat actions and ribbon clasps
Paulo Jorge Estrela
CHAPTER IV – COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS
The Mercantile Marine War Medals in WWI
Phil Lascelles
Classical motifs in the winged figure of Victory on the inter-allied Victory Medal 1919
Gilles Thomas Penman
Denmark and World War I
Sven Philip Jørgensen and Jan René Westh
World War I – Decorating the wounded
Bert Keers
The Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont’s Friedrich Bathildis Medal
Gert Efler
