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The Story of the Crusades (Serapis Classics) - cover

The Story of the Crusades (Serapis Classics)

Edith Wilmot-Buxtun

Publisher: Serapis Classics

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Summary

The two hundred years which cover, roughly speaking, the actual period of the Holy War, are crammed with an interest that never grows dim. Gallant figures, noble knights, generous foes, valiant women, eager children, follow one another through these centuries, and form a pageant the colour and romance of which can never fade, for the circumstances were in themselves unique. The two great religious forces of the world—Christianity and Islam, the Cross and the Crescent—were at grips with one another, and for the first time the stately East, with its suggestion of mystery, was face to face with the brilliant West, wherein the civilisation and organisation of Rome were at last prevailing over the chaos of the Dark Ages...
Available since: 11/13/2017.
Print length: 112 pages.

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