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Article: Crusader Warfare: Byzantium, Western Europe and the Struggle for the Holy Land 1050-1300 AD.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2009
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Crusader Warfare: Byzantium, Western Europe and the Struggle for the Holy Land 1050-1300 AD. By David Nicolle. (London, England: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Pp. xiv, 306. $59.55.)
Crusader Warfare is the first of a two-volume work, focusing on Christian participation during the Crusades. In some ways, the title is misleading. David Nicolle ambitiously construes the Crusades in broad terms, analyzing various aspects of warfare throughout the Mediterranean world during the eleventh through fourteenth centuries. He argues against viewing the Crusades as a "clash of civilizations" and instead examines political, economic, and social factors that dictated the military ...