Representing the Crusades

Sandra Gorgievski is an associate professor of English at the University of Toulon. Her research interests include medieval and contemporary popular culture. She is the author of a book on Arthurian myth and the co-author of a book on medievalism.

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 Jihâd 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