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The Rise and Fall of British Crusader Medievalism, c.1825-1945

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The Rise and Fall of British Crusader Medievalism, c.1825-1945 - Horswell, Mike
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This book investigates the uses of crusader medievalism - the memory of the crusades and crusading rhetoric and imagery - in Britain, from Walter Scott's The Talisman (1825) to the end of the Second World War. It seeks to understand why and when the crusades and crusading were popular, how they fitted with other cultural trends of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, how their use was affected by the turmoil of the First World War and whether they were differently employed in the interwar years and in the 1939-45 conflict. ...

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The Rise and Fall of British Crusader Medievalism, c.1825-1945 2020, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9780367593223

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The Rise and Fall of British Crusader Medievalism, c.1825-1945 2018, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9781138296756

Hardcover