Playing the Crusades

Engaging the Crusades, Volume Five
Herausgeber: Houghton, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume considers the appearance and use of the crusades in modern games; demonstrating that popular memory of the crusades is intrinsically and mutually linked with the design and play of these games.

Produktdetails

• Engaging the Crusades
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9780367716356
• ISBN-10: 0367716356
• Artikelnr.: 65610836

Autorenporträt

Robert Houghton is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. His research focuses on religious and political relationship networks in the central Middle Ages and on representations of the medieval world in modern games. Recent publications include 'Italian Bishops and Warfare during the Investiture Contest: The Case of Parma' (2018) and 'World, Structure and Play: Digital Games as Historical Research Tools' (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: crusades and crusading in modern games 1. A sacred task, no
cross required: the image of crusading in computer gaming-related
non-Christian science fiction universes 2.'I'm not responsible for the man
you are!' crusading and masculinities in Dante's Inferno 3. 'Show this fool
knight what it is to have no fear': freedom and oppression in Assassin's
Creed (2007) 4. Crusader kings too? (Mis)Representations of the crusades in
strategy games 5. Learning to think historically: some theoretical
challenges when playing the crusades