TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeCarlo,Carolyn
TI  - The Crusades
T2  - Empires in the Middle Ages
SN  - 9781680487817
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services
KW  - Crusades
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Illustrated works
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-46) and index; Grades 5-8
N2  - Many modern-day readers would consider Christians a peaceful people, but their history is steeped in war and bloodshed. This book focuses on a series of military campaigns known as the Crusades, during which Christian warriors attempted to regain the Holy Land (Palestine) from Muslim rule. This inclusive text begins with the origins of these campaigns, with reference to the Selijuq Turks' defeat of the Byzantine armies and Pope Urban II's Council at Clermont, and leads readers through seven well-known crusades to their decline and ultimate failure. It also contains an in-depth look at three special orders of knighthood: the Knights Hospitallers, the Knights Templars, and the Teutonic Knights
ER  -