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“Most national identities rest in part on a series of shared pseudohistorical myths.”
― God's War: A New History of the Crusades
― God's War: A New History of the Crusades
“One of the regular temptations seducing historians and their audience is to imagine knowledge of the past”
― God's War: A New History of the Crusades
― God's War: A New History of the Crusades
“The failure of Byzantium to uphold its territorial integrity from 1180 or defend itself 1203-1204 did not suggest it could necessarily have presented much of a bastion against the later Turkish invasion, however unpleasant the fourth crusade did not lead to the triumph of the Ottoman Turk”
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“Plundering history to deliver modern indictments serves no rational or benign purpose.”
― Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades
― Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades
