1st Edition
The Making of Crusading Heroes and Villains Engaging the Crusades, Volume Four
Introduction: making heroes and villains
Mike Horswell and Kristin Skottki
1. ‘Most Excellent and Brave of Heart’: Tancred’s making and unmaking in the sources
Francesca Petrizzo
2. The memorialisation of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem: from the medieval to the modern
Danielle E.A. Park
3. Oppressor, martyr, and Hollywood villain: Reynald of Châtillon and the representation of crusading violence
John D. Cotts
4. ‘The Evil Genius of the Third Crusade’: Conrad of Montferrat, stereotype and scapegoat
Marianne McLeod Gilchrist
5. Saladin and Richard the Lionheart: entangled memories
Mike Horswell
6. Saint Louis: a crusader king and hero for Victorian and First World War Britain and Ireland
Elizabeth Siberry
7. The sultan, the Kaiser, the colonel, and the purloined wreath
Carole Hillenbrand
Biography
Mike Horswell completed his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is the author of The Rise and Fall of British Crusader Medievalism, c.1825–1945 (2018). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is currently researching, teaching, and writing about the memory and use of the crusades in the modern era.
Kristin Skottki is Junior Professor of Medieval History at the University of Bayreuth. She has published on the medieval and modern historiography of the First Crusade, as in her monograph Christen, Muslime und der Erste Kreuzzug (2015). Her current research focuses on late medieval piety and medievalism.
