A fresh and detailed look of the Crusades, its about 1000 pages paperback but it really goes into a vast detail of people and history who were involved in the Crusades. The author does a good job at explaining the rise of state ran religion, and how the Roman Catholic Church evolved with the European culture that is embraced in the pre-feudal dark ages. I just started reading it, and so far I have to say the details of both the people, the culture and the theology explained is rather amazing. Its not as much a history book as it is a book that takes you back in time and gives you an idea of how cultures melded together and how the Crusades evolved.
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