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title: 'The Crusades'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Philip Schaff'
date: 1893-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Church History'
- 'Ancient and Medieval Church History'
- 'European Church History'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 26'
- 'Luke 24'
- 'Romans 12'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/schaff-1893-the-crusades
---

# The Crusades

Schaff surveys the Crusades' sources, histories, aims and character. He shows religious zeal mixed with ambition and violence failed to convert, yet yielded complex spiritual and social effects.

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