1st Edition

The Crusades and the Far-Right in the Twenty-First Century Engaging the Crusades, Volume Nine

Edited By Charlotte Gauthier Copyright 2025
114 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

114 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

114 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Engaging the Crusades is a series of concise volumes (up to 50,000 words) which 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: Contesting the ‘Misuse’ of History  1. ‘Bad Crusader’: Bohemond, the Scholars, and the Christchurch Shooter  2. Ordo Militaris Inc.: A Modern ‘Military Order’, Medieval History, and Historical ‘Authenticity’  3. British Newspapers, Brexit, and the Little Crusaders of Middle England  4. One Foot in Europe and the Other in Dixie: Neo-Confederates, Holy War, Chivalry, and the Crusades  5. Knives in the Dark and the Death of History: Validating the Far-Right’s Middle Ages through Assassin’s Creed

Biography

Charlotte Gauthier is Thornley Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Her research interests include the diplomatic and intellectual history of the later crusades, and the modern uses of crusading imagery and memory.