Overview: The year is 1202 and the Catholic Church rules the hearts and minds of all Europeans. The leader of the Church, Pope Innocent III, issues a summons to every able bodied man and boy: Take up arms and reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims. The un-civilized world has been called to wage holy war
The Fourth Crusade
✍ Scribed by Arthur Winfield Hodgman
- Book ID
- 124369114
- Publisher
- Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Inc.
- Year
- 1948
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 672 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-8353
- DOI
- 10.2307/3292740
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