IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 310: Representing Crusade and Crisis, II: Crusading Legacies and Modern Crises
Monday 1 July 2024, 16:30-18:00
| Sponsor: | Royal Holloway University of London / Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, St Louis University, Missouri |
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| Organiser: | Thomas Madden, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, Missouri |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Phillips, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Paper 310-a | The Crisis in the East: Crusading Connotations in the Reaction of Late 19th-Century Ottoman Pan-Islamism against Western Imperialism (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Modern Scholarship and Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 310-b | The Afterlife of Peter the Hermit (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Modern Scholarship and Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | The Crusades have had a long cultural and political legacy in both Europe and the Middle East. The varied ways in which the crusades have been and continue to be deployed to invoke memories of perceived past injustices or triumphs have become the subject of a productive field of modern crusading history. This session will examine three different but interlocking dimensions of crusading legacies in East and West: the use of crusade and anti-crusade rhetoric in late 19th-century Ottoman Pan-Islamism; in contrast, the evocation of the memory of Peter the Hermit in western Europe in response to Ottoman treatment of Bulgarians; and the untrammelled imaginative use of crusading in science fiction and fantasy. |