ABSTRACT
This chapter takes the view-from-the-periphery as opposed to the previous chapter’s view-from-the-centre through evaluating the use of crusader medievalism by missionaries and missionary agencies over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that Christian missionary engagement with crusader medievalism was shallow in Protestant circles, as opposed to two prominent non-British Catholic examples, but persistent: Church Mission Society (CMS) agents continued to describe missionary endeavour in crusading terms well into the twentieth century. However great the continuity with the crusaders was perceived to be, a distinction was always made between their violence and the methods of the ‘new missionary crusade’.
