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

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 Vic