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