Austin Cline - Fighting For Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades

The Crusades were one of the most important features of the European middle ages. For over 200 years, European soldiers traveled to the Holy Land in “Crusading Fever,” attempting to capture sacred sites in the name of Christianity and Europe from the Muslims. Today the Crusades are a powerful image — more for what they are made out to be by propagandists, though, than for what they really were. Funny thing is, that was true during the Crusades as well.

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