First Crusader: Byzantium's Holy Wars

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Treadgold, Warren | Copyright information

Ancient and Medieval First Crusader: Byzantium's Holy Wars. By Geoffrey Regan. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. viii, 280. $29.95.)

This popular history is worth reviewing in a scholarly journal only because its confused ideas of "crusade" and "holy war" could do real harm in the present political climate if it were mistaken for a scholarly work (as sometimes happens, for example, with the popularizations of John julius Norwich). It offers a mixture of an overview of Byzantine ...

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