The New Crusaders: Images of the Crusades in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

by Elizabeth Siberry

Overview

This is the first comprehensive study of the use, abuse and development of the crusade image in popular and high culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources, mainly from the British Isles, but with parallels from Western Europe and North America, the author shows the different approaches to the history of the crusading movement and crusade images taken by the historian, composer, artist and author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138276826
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/28/2016
Series:	The Nineteenth Century Series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Crusade historiography; The Crusade ancestor and hero; Travellers and plenipotentiaries; Crusading warfare; First world war; A Crusade miscellany; Scott and the Crusades; Literature and the Crusades; Popular historical fiction and tales for children; Art and the Crusades; Music and the Crusades; Conclusion; Appendix A: Wiffen’s list of English Crusaders; Appendix B: Sir William Hillary’s Crusade pamphlet; Appendix C: List of works in the Salles des Croisades at Versailles; Select bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

Siberry has shifted her interest from the crusades themselves to the history of them, and here looks at how the portrayal of them evolved from Horace Walpole's Gothic novella published in 1764 until the end of World War I. She argues that the image is likely to have come from popular culture in a variety of forms, such as the novels of Sir Walter Scott, Romantic and Pre-Raphaelite poetry, children's literature, and art and music in all its genres. She identifies common themes, among them ancestor and hero, travellers and plenipotentiaries, and warfare. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

'...informative, useful and often entertaining study...' English Historical Review '... will prove useful both to graduate students and advanced researchers... Siberry touches virtually every current of thought and emotion... Elizabeth Siberry deserves credit... a treasure-house of crusade memorabilia.' Crusades

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