Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 13th January 2027

Time: 7.30

Venue: Queen's College, Taunton

Description: This paper briefly outlines the reach of the medieval crusading movement, from campaigns in the Holy Land, such as that of Richard the Lionheart, and many diverse theatres of holy war, including Iberia, the Baltic, the Cathar heretics and later against the Ottoman Turks. After the end of the crusading movement in the sixteenth century we can plot the negative views of the Enlightenment, and then, in the nineteenth century, a revival of interest in the subject through cultural means, such as the novels of Sir Walter Scott, coupled with the return of Western Europeans to the Middle East which served as an active prompt to the memory of the medieval era. Crusading imagery featured prominently in World War One and, in a myriad of different forms, has continued to do so down to the present day.

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Organiser: Geoffrey Bisson

Lecturer: Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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Region: South-West England

Branch: Taunton Deane