With their conquests in the Near East, the crusaders became the lords of large non-Latin populations. Amanda Haney explains how scholars have traditionally treated relations between the conquerors and the people they conquered, and how that treatment is beginning to change.
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Were the establishment of Latin settlements in the Levant an inevitable result of the First Crusade? As Thomas Schellhammer explains, the motivations of the early crusaders, the personalities of the crusade's leadership, and the extraordinary events of the expedition all had a role to play.
This week Anna Lukyanova explains the complex Byzantine background to the First Crusade and shows why an understanding of this background is so important for our study of the establishment of the Crusader States.
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