About this ebook
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 deployment of crusading rhetoric and imagery in both the East and the 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.
Demonstrating the breadth of material encompassed by this subject and offering methodological suggestions for continuing its progress, Perceptions of the Crusades from the Ninetenth to the Twenty-First Century is essential reading for modern historians, military historians and historians of memory and medievalism.
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.
