The Changing Image of Saladin: From Crusader Villain to Chivalric Hero

On Becoming a Crusader - Essay by Sebastian Morello

EssaySebastian MorelloOn Becoming a Crusader Long have I deemed “Judeo-Christian” a weasel word. “Judeo-Christian identity” or “Judeo-Christian values” are terms deployed by cuckservative politicians to distract their more right-leaning useful idiot supporters. Amid some argument for free-speech absolutism, or transgressive anti-morality, or economic libertarianism, or deracinating individualism, they drop in the term “Judeo-Christia…

The Changing Image of Saladin: From Crusader Villain to Chivalric Hero

Few historical figures have undergone as dramatic a transformation as Saladin. Once cast as a ruthless enemy of Christendom, he later became the very model of knightly virtue in Western literature.