Article: The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance.(Book review)

doi: 10.1017/$0009640708001686

The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance. By Christopher MacEvitt. The Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xviii + 273 pp. $49.95 cloth.

Christopher MacEvitt approaches the history of the crusades and the Latin Levant between 1097 and 1187 from an intriguing perspective that leads him to conclusions about the nature of Frankish settlement in the Levant that, not surprisingly, differ substantially from those earlier writers have commonly drawn.

MacEvitt centers his study upon the impact of the crusades prior to the Battle of Hattin (4 July 1187) on the ...

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