ABSTRACT
‘Bloody Meadow’ is not only a provocative descriptor of the subject of this chapter – which is the spillage of blood in particular places – but is also rooted in historical specifics since there are Bloody Meadows associated with the English battlefields at Towton (1461), Tewkesbury (1471) and elsewhere. These names for specific locations reflect the continuing memory of the events that took place there, and in particular the fierceness of the fighting. The familiarity of the ‘historic battlefield’ as a category invites us to investigate it further, both as the place of a specific event in the past and as a persisting memory into the present.
