Crusadesby Anne W Carroll. Why the Crusades can be considered a "just" war as well as the history of the First Crusade is offered in this excerpt from Anne Carroll"s Catholic history text Christ the King: Lord of History.
Crusades: Truth and Black LegendAccording to Italian Catholic writer Vittorio Messori, the Enlightenment cast a "black legend" shadow on the Crusades, and used it as a weapon in its psychological war against the Roman Catholic Church.
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