The Crusades in the Modern World
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-06607-6 (ISBN)
The Crusades in the Modern World evaluates a broad range of contemporary uses of the crusades and crusading to answer key questions about crusading today and how the crusades are understood. Each chapter demonstrates how perceptions of the crusades are deployed in causes and conflicts which mark the present, exploring the ways in which those perceptions are constructed and received. Throughout the book there is a focus on the use of crusading rhetoric and imagery to frame and justify violence, including crusading discourses employed by both Islamic fundamentalists and far-right terrorists, and the related deployment of ‘Reconquista’ rhetoric by populist movements in Europe. The use of the crusades for building national identity is also a recurring theme, while chapters on academic engagement with the crusades and on the ways in which Wikipedia articles on the crusades are created and contested highlight the ongoing production of knowledge about crusading.
The Crusades in the Modern World is ideal for scholars of the crusades as well as for military historians and historians of memory.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.11.2017 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Engaging the Crusades |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Line drawings, black and white; 14 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 322 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-06607-9 / 1138066079 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-06607-6 / 9781138066076 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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