Publication
Routledge (2021), Edition: 1, 168 pages
ISBN
1032091886 / 9781032091884
Collections
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CONTENTS
Introduction: the crusades in the modern world
1. Weaponising the crusades: justifying terrorism and political violence
2.Los Caballeros Templarios de Michoacán: Knights Templar identity as a tool for legitimisation and internal discipline
3. Medievalism, imagination, and violence: the function and dysfunction of crusading rhetoric in the post-9/11 political world
4. The Reconquista revisited: mobilising medieval Iberian history in Spain, Portugal and beyond
5. The reception of the crusades in the contemporary Catholic Church: ‘purification of memory’ or medieval nostalgia?
6. Philatelic depictions of the crusades
7. Wikipedia and the crusades: constructing and communicating crusading
8. Engaging the crusades in context: reflections on the ethics of historical work
Introduction: the crusades in the modern world
1. Weaponising the crusades: justifying terrorism and political violence
2.Los Caballeros Templarios de Michoacán: Knights Templar identity as a tool for legitimisation and internal discipline
3. Medievalism, imagination, and violence: the function and dysfunction of crusading rhetoric in the post-9/11 political world
4. The Reconquista revisited: mobilising medieval Iberian history in Spain, Portugal and beyond
5. The reception of the crusades in the contemporary Catholic Church: ‘purification of memory’ or medieval nostalgia?
6. Philatelic depictions of the crusades
7. Wikipedia and the crusades: constructing and communicating crusading
8. Engaging the crusades in context: reflections on the ethics of historical work