Perceptions of the Crusades from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century: Engaging the Crusades, Volume One

ISBN-13: 9781138066014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 134 str.

Jonathan Phillips; Mike Horswell

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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