1st Edition
The Crusades in the Modern World Engaging the Crusades, Volume Two
Introduction: the crusades in the modern world
MIKE HORSWELL AND AKIL N. AWAN
1) Weaponising the crusades: justifying terrorism and political violence
AKIL N. AWAN
2) Los Caballeros Templarios de Michoacán: Knights Templar identity as a tool for legitimisation and internal discipline
PHIL JAMES
3) Medievalism, imagination, and violence: the function and dysfunction of crusading rhetoric in the post-9/11 political world
HILARY RHODES
4) The Reconquista revisited: mobilising medieval Iberian history in Spain, Portugal and beyond
TIAGO JOÃO QUEIMADA E SILVA
5) The reception of the crusades in the contemporary Catholic Church: ‘purification of memory’ or medieval nostalgia?
MARCO GIARDINI
6) Philatelic depictions of the crusades
RACHAEL PYMM
7) Wikipedia and the crusades: constructing and communicating crusading
MIKE HORSWELL
8) Engaging the crusades in context: reflections on the ethics of historical work
SUSANNA A. THROOP
Biography
Akil N. Awan is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Political Violence and Terrorism at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is Founder and Chair of the Political Science Association’s Specialist Group on Political Violence & Terrorism. His books include Radicalisation and Media: Terrorism and Connectivity in the New Media Ecology and Jihadism Transformed: al-Qaeda and Islamic State’s Global Battle of Ideas.
Mike Horswell completed his PhD at Royal Holloway, university of London, and his book - The Rise and Fall of British Crusader Medievalism, c.1825-1945 - was published in 2018. He has taught at Royal Holloway, King's College London, and the University of Oxford and is currently researching, teaching and writing on the memory and legacy of the crusades in the modern era, from historiography to popular culture.
