The Crusades and the Near East: Cultural Histories

by Conor Kostick (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $46.26

  The crusades are often seen as epitomising a period when hostility between Christian West and the Muslim Near East reached an all time high. This volume explores how the Holy Wars led on the one hand to a reinforcement of the beliefs and identities of each side, but on the other to a growing level of cultural exchange and interaction.