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The Oxford History of the Crusades
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The Oxford History of the Crusades The Oxford History of the Crusades
Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades, from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today.
 
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The Era Of The Crusades - LECTURES (mp3)
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The Era Of The Crusades - LECTURES (mp3)Taught by Kenneth W. Harl
Tulane University
Ph.D., Yale University

The Crusades have been hailed as the driving force that brought Western Europe out of the Middle Ages—and condemned as the beginning of European imperialism in the Muslim Near East. But what really were the Crusades? What were the forces that led to one of history’s most protracted and legendary periods of conflict? How did they affect the three great civilizations that participated in them? And, ultimately, why did they end and what did they accomplish?

 
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