Perceptions of the crusades from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / edited by Mike Horswell and Jonathan Phillips.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Crusades : the nineteenth-century readers' perspective / Elizabeth Siberry -- Creating chivalrous imperial crusaders : the crusades in juvenile literature from Scott to Newbolt, 1825-1917 / Mike Horswell -- "May God punish England!" : pseudo-crusading language and holy war motifs in postcards of World War I / Felix Hinz -- "Unity! unity between all the inhabitants of our lands!" : the memory and legacy of the Crusades and Saladin in the Near East, c.1880 to c.1925 / Jonathan Phillips -- The dead, the revived and the recreated pasts : "structural amnesia" in representations of crusade history / Kristin Skottki.

Perceptions of the Crusades from the Ninetenth to the Twenty-First Century explores the ways in which the crusades have been used in the last two centuries, including the varying uses of crusading rhetoric and imagery in both the East and West. It considers the scope and impact of crusading memory from the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, engaging with nineteenth-century British lending libraries; literary uses of crusading tales; wartime postcard propaganda; memories of Saladin and crusades in the Near East; and the works of modern crusade historians. It is essential reading for modern historians, military historians and historians of memory"-- Provided by publisher.