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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge

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In one case a sick woman was diagnosed as having ‘a demon inside her head’. Usama apparently watched as the attending Latin physician first shaved her head and then ‘took a razor and made a cut in her head in the shape of a cross. He then ...more