Holy Land in the Era of the Crusades

“Dispels several of the misconceptions that still so often appear in the more popular accounts of the crusades and the Latin East . . . commendable.”—Adrian Boas, author of The Crusader World

The Near East in the era of the Crusades was home to diverse populations Orthodox and Latin Christians, Shia and Sunni Muslims, Jews and Samaritans. It was the meeting-point for Arab, Turkish, Byzantine and Fr...