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Crusading in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1798–1928: Engaging the Crusades, Volume Ten book cover

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Crusading in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1798–1928 Engaging the Crusades, Volume Ten

By Adam Knobler Copyright 2025
130 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Engaging the Crusades is a series of concise volumes (up to 50,000 words) that offer initial windows into the ways in which the crusades have been used in the last two centuries, demonstrating that the memory of the crusades is an important and emerging subject. Together these studies suggest that the memory of the crusades, in the modern period, is a productive, exciting, and much-needed area... Read more

Introduction: Early Modern Crusader Medievalism                                               

Section One: Introduction                                                              

            Britain: The Crusading Hero                                                 

            France: A Nation of Crusaders                                              

            Iberia: Reviving Past Glories                                                

            Germany/Italy: New Nations in the Nineteenth Century      

            Conclusions                                                                           

Section Two: Invented Crusading in Orthodox Europe              

            Greek Irredentism the Megali Idea and Crusading               

            Bulgaria’s One Man Crusade                                                

            Russia and the Adoption of Crusading Terminology            

            Conclusions                                                                           

Section Three: Islamicate Views of the Crusades in the Long 19th Century

            Salibiyya and Crusading                                                       

            Indian Muslims                                                                      

            Conclusions                                                                           

Section Four:  World War One & Its Aftermath                         

            World War One                                                                     

            The Rif War and the Carlists:  a Crusader Medievalist Holdover

            Conclusions                                                                           

Conclusions        

Biography

Adam Knobler is a Professor of the History of Religion at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES), Ruhr Universität Bochum. He is particularly interested in the use of mythologies in creating historical narratives. Among his publications is Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration (2016).

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