Judith Vitale is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Zurich.

Vitale clearly and convincingly shows how the historiographical significance of these thirteenth-century invasions was both preserved and amplified by the efforts of scholars and intellectuals, both amateur and professional, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, helping to sustain a warrior identity that morphed into an essential aspect of a modern, national identity.

Judith Vitale is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Zurich.

Vitale clearly and convincingly shows how the historiographical significance of these thirteenth-century invasions was both preserved and amplified by the efforts of scholars and intellectuals, both amateur and professional, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, helping to sustain a warrior identity that morphed into an essential aspect of a modern, national identity.

Judith Vitale is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Zurich.

Vitale clearly and convincingly shows how the historiographical significance of these thirteenth-century invasions was both preserved and amplified by the efforts of scholars and intellectuals, both amateur and professional, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, helping to sustain a warrior identity that morphed into an essential aspect of a modern, national identity.