Representing the Crusades

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

Part I. Constructing Memory: Geographical Space and Images of Empires

1.?Mapping the Other: Mappa Mundi, the Evolution of Maps and Charts in Medieval Arab and Western Geography

2.?The Wonders of the East: Iconology in Eastern and Western Illuminated Manuscripts

3.?Propaganda: Nostalgia for the Orient and Topoi of the Crusades in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

4.?Orientalism in the Nineteenth Century: A New Repertoire of Images

Part II. The Making of Heroes: Perceptions, Representations, Idealization, Propaganda, Mythmaking

5.?Mirrored Chivalric Images of Saladin and Richard in Arab and Western Sources from Medieval Illuminations to Crusade Films and Illustration

6.?The Rhetoric of Violence: From Medieval Hyperbole to Combat in Comic Books and Euphemized, Virtual Death in Gaming

7.?Patrimonialism and the Cult of Crusading Heroes and Jihad Militants in the Twentieth and -Twenty-First Centuries

Part III. Reframing History: Time, History, and Uchronia

?8.?Literary Manipulation: The Crusades as -Pre-Text in Novels

?9.?Redesigning the Orient: Syncretism in Western Illustration and Comic Series

10.?Gaming, Multiculturalism, and Transmedia Narrative

Conclusion: The Reception of the Crusades Today

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

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• História Antiga: c 500 a c 1450/1500
• Cultura popular
• História Medieval
• Filmes, cinema

medieval; European