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Article: The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences.(Book review)
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The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences. By Michael Lower. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xii + 259 pp. $49.95 cloth.
Late in 1234 Pope Gregory IX, having no faith in the truce in the East negotiated by Frederick II, launched a Crusade to the Holy Land. Late in 1235, concerned by news from Constantinople, he sought to divert the Crusade to the Latin Empire. Michael Lower's study of this crusading effort examines in detail the response of the major figures approached to lead the Crusade and their reactions to Gregory's effort to turn it toward a different objective.
Hoping to avoid both ...