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The New Crusaders

The New Crusaders

Elizabeth Siberry

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2016
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9781138276826
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This is the first comprehensive study of the use, abuse and development of the crusade image in popular and high culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources, mainly from the British Isles, but with parallels from Western Europe and North America, the author shows the different approaches to the history of the crusading movement and crusade images taken by the historian, composer, artist and author.

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