Varus and the Lost Legions in Sagnlandet Lejre - A Re-enactment Success?

In July 2009 a battle took place in Sagnlandet Lejre, in the heart of Zealand in Denmark. The battle was a dramatized re-enactment of the historical battle of Teutoburg forest in Niedersachsen in the year 9 AD - also known as the Varus Battle. Why should such a re-enactment event take place in Denma...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ane Jepsen
Formato: article
Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: EXARC 2012
Materias:
war
Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/6df86082bc2c42deaa2733423b90e07a
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
Descripción
Sumario:In July 2009 a battle took place in Sagnlandet Lejre, in the heart of Zealand in Denmark. The battle was a dramatized re-enactment of the historical battle of Teutoburg forest in Niedersachsen in the year 9 AD - also known as the Varus Battle. Why should such a re-enactment event take place in Denmark - over 100 kilometres from the presumed site of the historic battle? And why was this event different from the hundreds of other re-enacted battles that take place all over Europe every summer? And the most important question - was the event a success and by what criteria should the success of a re-enactment event be measured? In this article a number of dilemmas, which are invariably linked with attempting to re-enact specific historic events for a modern audiences, are discussed and the event "Varus and the Lost Legions" as it took place in 2009, forms the centre point.