1st Edition
Playing the Crusades Engaging the Crusades, Volume Five
Introduction: crusades and crusading in modern games
Robert Houghton
A sacred task, no cross required: the image of crusading in computer gaming-related non-Christian science fiction universes
Roland Wenskus
‘I’m not responsible for the man you are!’: crusading and masculinities in Dante’s Inferno
Katherine J. Lewis
‘Show this fool knight what it is to have no fear’: freedom and oppression in Assassin’s Creed (2007)
Oana-Alexandra Chirilă
Crusader kings too? (Mis)Representations of the crusades in strategy games
Robert Houghton
Learning to think historically: some theoretical challenges when playing the crusades
Andreas Körber, Johannes Meyer-Hamme, and Robert Houghton
Biography
Robert Houghton is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. His research focuses on religious and political relationship networks in the central Middle Ages and on representations of the medieval world in modern games. Recent publications include ‘Italian Bishops and Warfare during the Investiture Contest: The Case of Parma’ (2018) and ‘World, Structure and Play: Digital Games as Historical Research Tools’ (2018).
