Catching up on Engaging the Crusades Volumes 5 & 6

In an attempt to catch up with some of the volumes that have been published in Engaging the Crusades in the last few years here are volumes five and six.

Volume Five: Playing the Crusades
An important contribution to the subject which brings together insights from game studies with crusader medievalism. Robert Houghton is one of the leading scholars of medieval games and has compiled an excellent study of games either focusing on or including the crusades.
Contents: 

1. Introduction: crusades and crusading in modern games  - Robert Houghton
2. A sacred task, no cross required: the image of crusading in computer gaming-related non-Christian science fiction universes - Roland Wenskus
3. ‘I’m not responsible for the man you are!’: crusading and masculinities in Dante’s Inferno - Katherine J. Lewis
4. ​‘Show this fool knight what it is to have no fear’: freedom and oppression in Assassin’s Creed (2007) - Oana-Alexandra Chirilă
5. Crusader kings too? (Mis)Representations of the crusades in strategy games - Robert Houghton
6. Learning to think historically: some theoretical challenges when playing the crusades - ​Andreas Körber, Johannes Meyer-Hamme, and Robert Houghton

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Volume Six: Tales of the Crusaders - Remembering the Crusades in Britain
Elizabeth Siberry returns to the topic of how the crusades were remembered in Britain in the nineteenth century and before, updating her classic The New Crusaders two decades later.
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'Crusading was a part of the rich tapestry of family history, with tales of crusading developed as evidence of heroic endeavour to enhance family prestige. Lists of crusaders were published to satisfy this market and heraldry was a visible means of displaying such lineage. Drawing on extensive research and previously untapped sources, this book charts continuing British interest in the crusades, focusing on the nineteenth century. The volume discusses what was available to read on the subject and how this was discussed in numerous journals. Set in the British context of growing local and regional interest in history and archaeology, the study also considers the physical artefacts associated with the crusades.'

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