Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099–1187)
by
Sylvia Schein
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Gateway to the Heavenly City presents a penetrating analysis of the attitudes of Latin Christendom towards Jerusalem in the period from the First Crusade to the Muslim capture of the city in 1187. Sylvia Schein starts by exploring the changes in the Western image of Jerusalem, first as the goal of...