A review of How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman.
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Domenico Paradisi, Crusaders Reach Jerusalem (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), ca. 1689–93, Wool, silk tapestry, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Thomas F. Madden is Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University.Popular Right Now