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Article: Byzantium and the Crusades.(Book Review)
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- June 1, 2005
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Byzantium and the Crusades. By Jonathan Harris. London: Hambledon and London, 2003. xviii + 259 pp. $29.95 cloth.
Two diametrically opposed views long dominated discussions of Byzantine relations with the West: one pro-Western and anti-Byzantine, the other, pro-Byzantine and anti-Western. The core of these opposites lay in religious conflict, whose basis was more cultural than theological, though it tended, from the mid-eleventh century onward, to coalesce over the role of the papacy in the church. Given the role of the papacy in the Crusades, it is not surprising that religious attitudes were important in shaping policies and viewpoints on both sides. But the ...