HISTORY: Stand fast! Today may we all gain much booty The First Crusade By Thomas Asbridge FREE PRESS pounds 20 pounds 18 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897; How can you love your enemy and kill him? Contrary to our modern assumptions, finds Murrough O'Brien, Crusader knights worried about such a paradox

The Independent on Sunday | April 18, 2004| | Copyright

This proclaims itself a "new history", which seems unwise. There is a simpering self-regard implicit in the adjective. "Gracious," the author might be smirking, "I'm not suggesting that this is `definitive' or anything, just new." But this history is indeed innovative, in that it confounds many of the cliches hovering over the First Crusade, and does so with rigour and charity. At the battle of Dorylaeum, the crusaders kept up their spirits with an inspiring, if ambiguous, battle cry: "Stand fast together, trusting in Christ and the victory of the Holy Cross. Today may we all gain much ...

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