East Beats West
Can television offer a genuine contemporary insight into the wars of the eleventh and twelfth centuries?
The History Channel’s The Crusades: Crescent & The Cross illuminates the historical roots of Christian-Islamic conflict, using historical sources from both cultures and perspectives. Warfare and religion, the defining elements of the era, are brought to life onscreen and the struggles to reach Jerusalem of the First, Second and Third Crusade provide the basis for the story.
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