Perceptions of the Crusades from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / edited by Mike Horswell and Jonathan Phillips.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horswell, Mike, editor.

Phillips, Jonathan (Jonathan P.), editor.

Series:

Engaging the Crusades : the memory and legacy of the Crusades ; volume one.

Engaging the Crusades : the memory and legacy of the Crusades ; volume one

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--Historiography.

Crusades.

Crusades--Public opinion--History.

Crusades in literature.

Crusades in art.

Public opinion.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 134 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

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 considers the scope and impact of crusading memory from the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, engaging with nineteenth-century British lending libraries; literary uses of crusading tales; wartime postcard propaganda; memories of Saladin and crusades in the Near East; and the works of modern crusade historians. It is essential reading for modern historians, military historians and historians of memory"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: engaging the crusades / Jonathan Phillips and Mike Horswell

1. The Crusades : the nineteenth-century readers' perspective / Elizabeth Siberry

2. Creating chivalrous imperial crusaders : the crusades in juvenile literature from Scott to Newbolt, 1825-1917 / Mike Horswell

3. "May God punish England!" : pseudo-crusading language and Holy War motifs in postcards of the First World War / Felix Hinz

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 / Jonathan Phillips

5. The dead, the revived and the recreated pasts : "structural amnesia" in representations of crusade history / Kristin Skottki.

Notes:

"Routledge Focus"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138066014

113806601X

OCLC:

1045641450