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Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media: Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century

Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media: Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century

Elliott, Andrew B. R.

Hardcover

Series: Medievalism, Book 10

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral SociologyInternational Relations

ISBN10: 184384463X
ISBN13: 9781843844631
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: Mar 17 2017
Pages: 236
Weight: 2.38
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
An exploration of how the Middle Ages are manipulated ideologically in today's communication.

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 later in 2011, Anders Behring Breivik launched a tragic attack in Norway, killing 77 unarmed civilians, mostly teenagers. Breivik saw himself as a Templar Knight, a member of a group of knights allegedly resurrected in London in 2002 by one Lionheart. Later investigations suggested that the blogger, Lionheart, might have had links to the right-wing, anti-Muslim, English Defence League and otherso-called counterjihad blogging networks decrying an Islamic invasion of Europe.

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