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The Story of the Crusades (Serapis Classics)

The Story of the Crusades (Serapis Classics) PDF Author: Edith Wilmot-Buxtun
Publisher: Serapis Classics
ISBN: 3963135220
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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The two hundred years which cover, roughly speaking, the actual period of the Holy War, are crammed with an interest that never grows dim. Gallant figures, noble knights, generous foes, valiant women, eager children, follow one another through these centuries, and form a pageant the colour and romance of which can never fade, for the circumstances were in themselves unique. The two great religious forces of the world—Christianity and Islam, the Cross and the Crescent—were at grips with one another, and for the first time the stately East, with its suggestion of mystery, was face to face with the brilliant West, wherein the civilisation and organisation of Rome were at last prevailing over the chaos of the Dark Ages...