The Making of Crusading Heroes and Villains (eBook, ePUB)

Engaging the Crusades, Volume Four
Redaktion: Horswell, Mike; Skottki, Kristin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new volume of the Engaging the Crusades series explores the ways in which significant crusading figures have been employed as heroes and villains, and by whom. It is perfect for scholars and students of the crusades, and historians concerned with the development of reputations and memory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000084979
• Artikelnr.: 61199550

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: making heroes and villains 1. 'Most Excellent and Brave of
Heart': Tancred's making and unmaking in the sources 2. The memorialisation
of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem: from the medieval to the modern 3.
Oppressor, martyr, and Hollywood villain: Reynald of Châtillon and the
representation of crusading violence 4. 'The Evil Genius of the Third
Crusade': Conrad of Montferrat, stereotype and scapegoat 5. Saladin and
Richard the Lionheart: entangled memories 6. Saint Louis: a crusader king
and hero for Victorian and First World War Britain and Ireland 7. The
sultan, the Kaiser, the colonel, and the purloined wreath