Middle Ages 7: The Later Crusades and Their Legacies
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The Crusaders and the Middle East
Eighteenth century polemasis, like voltaire, caste a the crusaders as violent bigots. They then again were taken up and celebrated in a slightly different way by european imperialists,. particularly french imperialists. So both secular nationalists and islamists in the middle east a sort of revived the crusades for their own purposes.
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