Byzantium and the Crusades.(Book Review)

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Byzantium and the Crusades. By Jonathan Harris. London: Hambledon and London, 2003. xviii + 259 pp. $29.95 cloth.

Two diametrically opposed views long dominated discussions of Byzantine relations with the West: one pro-Western and anti-Byzantine, the other, pro-Byzantine and anti-Western. The core of these opposites lay in religious conflict, whose basis was more cultural than theological, though it tended, from the mid-eleventh century onward, to coalesce over the role of the papacy in the church. Given the role of the papacy in the Crusades, it is not surprising that ...

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