Volume 14, Number 10 · May 21, 1970
Deus le Volt?
By Geoffrey Barraclough
The Epic of the Crusades
by René Grousset, translated by Noel Lindsay
Orion Press, 280 pp., $10.00
A History of the Crusades, Vol. I: The First Hundred Years
edited by Kenneth M. Setton, edited by Marshall W. Baldwin
Wisconsin, 707 pp., $15.00
A History of the Crusades, Vol. II: The Later Crusades
edited by Kenneth M. Setton, edited by Robert Lee Wolff, edited by Harry W. Hazard
Wisconsin, 871 pp., $15.00
The Christian Centuries, A New History of the Catholic Church Vol. II: The Middle Ages
by M. David Knowles, by Dimitri Obolensky
McGraw-Hill, 519 pp., $15.00
The Norman Achievement
by David C. Douglas
California, 271 pp., $8.50
Heresies of the High Middle Ages
by Walter L. Wakefield, by Austin P. Evans
Columbia, 865 pp., $22.50
The Great Church in Captivity
by Steven Runciman
Cambridge, 455 pp., $9.50
Every generation, it is said, writes its own history in the light of its own experience; and if this is so, it is not surprising that the great process of decolonization which we have witnessed since 1947 should force us to look again—with alerted eyes and new perspectives—at that first age of European colonialism which we call the Crusades.
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