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Research Guides

2024-2025 Big Thought Series

Speaker

The Shadow of the Crusades
in Post-9/11 America

Wednesday, November 13 | 3:30 p.m. | Grappone Humanities Institute

Dr. Alexandra Locking
Saint Anselm College, History Department

Understanding the Modern World
Through the Medieval Past

Wednesday, November 13 | 4:30 p.m. | Grappone Humanities Institute

Dr. Georgia Henley
Saint Anselm College, English and Communications Department

Further Reading

‘Fantastic Neomedievalism’: The Image of the Middle Ages in Popular Fantasy
by Kim Selling. In "Flashes of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from The War of the Worlds Centennial, Nineteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts." Edited by David Ketterer. Praeger Publishers, 2004, pp. 211-218.

Making the Medieval Relevant: How Medieval Studies Contribute to Improving Our Understanding of the Present by Chris Jones (Editor); Conor Kostick (Editor); Klaus Oschema (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9783110545302
Publication Date: 2019
Medievalism: a Critical History by David Matthews
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781782043973
Publication Date: 2015
Specifically, look at the Introduction.

Metaphorical Memories of the Medieval Crusades after 9/11
by Brian Johnsrud. In "Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies." Edited by Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, and Pieter Vermeulen, Berghahn Books, 2016.

"Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades"
by Nicholas L. Paul. In "Whose Middle Ages: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past." Edited by Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, and Nino Rowe. Fordham University Press, 2019.

The Past as the Key for the Future: What Does (Medieval) Literature Mean Today in the Twenty-First Century?
by Albrecht Classen. Athens Journal of Philology - Volume 6, Issue 3 – Pages 147-170.
Remarks by the President Upon Arrival, The South Lawn, September 16, 2001
by George W. Bush, Office of the Press Secretary, The White House.
RICHARD WARREN FIELD'S THE SWORDS OF FAITH: A HISTORICAL ANALOGY BETWEEN THE THIRD CRUSADE AND 9/11
by Nisreen Yousef, International Journal of Arts & Sciences; Vol. 8, Iss. 8, (2015): 273-281.