Nationalising the Crusades: Engaging the Crusades, Vol. 8

The latest volume of the series takes a look at how memories of the crusades are - and have been - nationalised. Thinking with national lenses has produced perceptions of the crusades aligned to national histories and this volume examines some of the ways in which that has occurred beyond Britain and France which are well served elsewhere.
More than that, however, this volume seeks to highlight how nationalised perspectives limit views of the crusades, offering ways of thinking about crusader medievalism which move beyond nationalised histories.

Contents:
Introduction: crusade and nation - Mike Horswell

1) "Heroes and martyrs"?: national memories and foreign crusaders in Portuguese commemorations of the eighth centenary of the conquest of Lisbon (1947) - Pedro Martins

2) The Tsar’s crusade: invented holy war tradition in Russia (1780-1920) - Adam Knobler

3) Perceptions of crusader ‘Athlit in Zionist writing (1887-1941) - Judith Bronstein

4) Cultural brokers in the nationalisation of crusader architecture - Astrid Swenson

5) Bushido, chivalry and the crusades in Japan from the 1870s to the First World War - Oleg Benesch

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