Why White Supremacists and QAnon Enthusiasts are Obsessed – but Very Wrong – About the Byzantine Empire
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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine (THE CONVERSATION) From Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in recent years. Displays of Crusader shields and tattoos derived from Norse and Celtic symbols are of little surprise to medieval historians like me who have long documented the appropriation of the Middle Ages by today’s far right. But amid all the expected Viking imagery and nods to the Crusaders has been another dormant...