The History of the Crusades

THE HISTORY of the middle ages presents no spectacle more imposing than the Crusades, in which are to be seen the nations of Asia and of Europe armed against each other, two religions contending for superiority, and disputing the empire of the world. After having been several times threatened by the Muslims, and a long time exposed to their invasions, all at once the West arouses itself, and appears, according to the expression of a Greek historian, to tear itself from its foundation, in or...