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Perceptions of the Crusades from the Ninetenth to the Twenty-First Century explores the ways in which the crusades have been used in the last two centuries, including the varying uses of crusading rhetoric and imagery in both the East and West. It is essential reading for modern historians, military historians and historians of memory.
List of contents
Introduction; 1) The crusades: nineteenth-century readers' perspectives; 2) Creating chivalrous imperial crusaders: the crusades in juvenile literature from Scott to Newbolt, 1825–1917; 3) ‘May God punish England!’: pseudo-crusading language and Holy War motifs in postcards of the First World War; 4) ‘Unity! Unity between all the inhabitants of our lands!’: the memory and legacy of the crusades and Saladin in the Near East, c.1880 to c.1925; 5) The dead, the revived and the recreated pasts: ‘structural amnesia’ in representations of crusade history
About the author
Mike Horswell recently completed his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is a Visiting Lecturer. His book – The Rise and Fall of British Crusader Medievalism, c.1825–1945 – was published in early 2018; he is currently researching and writing about the memory and use of the crusades in the modern era.
Jonathan Phillips is Professor of the History of the Crusades at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published extensively on the history of the medieval crusades, including works on the Second and Fourth Crusades, and is the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Crusades. His next book, to be published in 2019, is on the life and legacy of Saladin.
Summary
Perceptions of the Crusades from the Ninetenth to the Twenty-First Century explores the ways in which the crusades have been used in the last two centuries, including the varying uses of crusading rhetoric and imagery in both the East and West. It is essential reading for modern historians, military historians and historians of memory.
