Pilgrimages to the Western Front of World War I Historical Exemplars & Contemporary Practices

Heather A. Warfield is a Full Professor at Antioch University and a specialist of pilgrimage studies, with research focused on the psychology of pilgrimages. She is the series editor of Pilgrimage Studies (Peter Lang) and editor of the 2023 volume MultidisciplinaryPerspectives on Pilgrimage: Historical, Current and Future Directions. In addition to academic publications, she has written articles about contemporary battlefield pilgrimages for US military publications and serves as a battlefield pilgrimage expert for military staff rides and other related educational programs.Stéphane Michonneau is a Full Professor at the University of Paris-Est Créteil. He has worked on contemporary Spain and, more generally, on the relationship between memory and history in the context of the formation of European nationalisms. He is particularly interested in War Studies and the links between history and narratives. He has recently published, Franco. Le temps et la légende (Paris, Flammarion, 2025), Belchite, villagefantôme de la Guerre d’Espagne (Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2020) and Un récit mémorable (Paris, Presses de la Sorbonne, 2017).Franck Viltart is an historian and specialist of remembrance practices, war heritage, remembrance tourism and war museography. He is Head of the Mission Patrimoine de la Première Guerre mondiale for the transnational (France-Belgium) serial property of Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front), inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2023.