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Medievalism, politics and mass media : appropriating the Middle Ages in the twenty-first century /
In 2001, George Bush provoked global uproar by describing the nascent War on Terror as a "Crusade". His comments, however, were welcomed by Al-Qaeda, who had long been describing Western powers in precisely the same terms, as modern Crusaders once again invading the Middle East. Ten years...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk :
The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd,
2017.
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| Collection: | Medievalism (Series) ;
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Table des matières:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Not Dead Yet: The Middle Ages in the Twenty-first Century; 2 Getting Medieval on Your RSS: Medievalism and the Mass Media; 3 "Let's not go back to the Middle Ages": Medievalism, the Dark Ages and the Myth of Progress; 4 "This crusade, this War on Terror, is gonna take a while": The Bush Doctrine, the Crusades and Neomedievalism; 5 "They have announced explicitly that this is a Crusader war": Al Qaeda and Holy War; 6 "The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ": Anders Behring Breivik and the Templar Knights.
- 7 "God bless the EDL, the new Templar Knights": The EDL, the Far Right and the Crusaders8 "These women-raping, Muslim-murdering, medieval monsters": IS, the Middle Ages and the Mass Media; Bibliography; Index.