The Crusades in the Modern World (eBook, ePUB)

Engaging the Crusades, Volume Two
Redaktion: Horswell, Mike; Awan, Akil N

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351250467
• Artikelnr.: 57263449

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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