War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade

by Megan Cassidy-Welch

Book Overview

In this book, Megan Cassidy-Welch challenges the notion that using memories of war to articulate and communicate collective identity is exclusively a modern phenomenon. War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade explores how and why remembering war came to be culturally meaningful during the early thirteenth century.

By the 1200s, discourses of crusading were deeply steeped in the language of memory: crusaders understood themselves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271083530
• ISBN13: 9780271083537
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"