Megan Cassidy-Welch, War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019, xi, 202 pp., 3 maps, 2 figs.

Memory Studies matter greatly, especially in conjunction with war. The modern world knows, unfortunately, just too much about the need to remember wars and the victims, but this was also the case in the thirteenth century when public reflections on the past crusades began to assume center position, especially in light of the fifth crusade, which is the topic of Megan Cassidy-Welch’s new monograph, which continues several other projects of a very similar nature. In fact, it seems that she drew heavily from some of her previous publications for this study, although this is not clearly indicated. Although she focuses primarily on a medieval phenomenon, her study allows us to reach many highly valuable conclusions for our own world because war and death have always tortured human life.