This book investigates the uses of crusader medievalism – the memory of the crusades and crusading rhetoric and imagery – in Britain, from Walter Scott’s

Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims.

Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades. Togethe

This volume is a collection of nineteen original essays by leading specialists on the history, historiography and memory of the Crusades, the social and cultura

Offers new insights into the political and modern uses of public monuments devoted to figures from the past and the role of historical culture in the creation o