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

Engaging the Crusades is a series of concise volumes (up to 50,000 words) that offer initial windows into the ways in which the crusades have been used in the l

The relationship between medievalism and reception explored via a rich variety of case studies. At the intersection of the twin fields of medievalism and recept

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

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