Название: The Holy Land in the Era of the Crusades: Kingdoms at the Crossroads of Civilizations, 1100–1300
Автор: Helena Schrader
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: ‎1526787598
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF, EPUB
Страниц: 394
Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

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 Frankish culture, the latter itself a mixture of Western traditions adapted to circumstances in the crusader states by the Europeans who had settled in the Holy Land. While the Crusades have become a synonym for brutality and bigotry, the crusader states represented a positive example of harmonious coexistence across two centuries.