The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades . ro-vidence, been also productive of good. They awoke themind of Europe from its slumber of ignorance and bar-barism, by bringing it into contact with the more polishednations of the East; they enlarged the sphere of ideas,gave a taste for elegance and refinement, extended navi-gation and commerce, and thereby increased the wealthand powers of cities; they diminished the property andinfluence of the factious and tyrannic nobles, and enlargedthe authority of monarchs. The degree of intercoursethat prevailed betwe
The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades . ro-vidence, been also productive of good. They awoke themind of Europe from its slumber of ignorance and bar-barism, by bringing it into contact with the more polishednations of the East; they enlarged the sphere of ideas,gave a taste for elegance and refinement, extended navi-gation and commerce, and thereby increased the wealthand powers of cities; they diminished the property andinfluence of the factious and tyrannic nobles, and enlargedthe authority of monarchs. The degree of intercoursethat prevailed between Europe and Asia, during the pe-riod of the Crusades, was far beyond what we usually con-ceive. It has not become adequately known until veryrecently. * Outlines of History, page 259. PRINTED BY J. E. T*AYLOB, L1T1LB QUEEN STREET, LINCOLNS lltN FIELDS. o ?•*« g&ui. *jmma& mw D Keightley, Thomas 158 The crusaders K45 5th ed. 1859 PLEASE DO NOT REMOVECARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY I j. THE CRUSADERS; OR, SCENES, EVENTS, AND CHARACTERS, FROM THE TIMES OF THE CRUSADES. By THOMAS KEIGHTLEY, AUTHOR OF HISTORIES OF GREECE, ROME, ENGLAND, AND INDIA ;OUTLINES OF HISTORY, ETC. Published under the Djrection of The Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. LONDON:JOHN W. PARKER AND SON, WEST STRAND. MDCCCLIX. Dis* FEINTED BY JOHN EDWABD TAYLOB, LITTLE QUEEN STBEET, LINCOLNS INN EIELDS. PREFACE. The present work, as is sufficiently indicated by itstitle, is not designed to be a regular history of theCrusades. It is a picture of manners rather than anarrative of events. The object proposed has beento set before the view of the reader, as clearly as theexisting documents permit, the Crusaders, the Greeks,the Turks, and the Saracens, of the twelfth century,as they lived, thought, and acted. Hence there willbe found much more of anecdote in the followingpages than is perhaps consistent with legi
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