1st Edition
Perceptions of the Crusades from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century Engaging the Crusades, Volume One
Introduction: engaging the crusades
Jonathan Phillips and Mike Horswell
1) The crusades: nineteenth-century readers' perspectives
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
Biography
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.
