books.google.com.au - The essays in this volume demonstrate that on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean there were rich, variegated, and important phenomena associated with the Crusades, and that a full understanding of the significance of the movement and its impact on both the East and West must take these phenomena...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Crusades_from_the_perspective_of_Byz.html?id=YTAhPw3SjxIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Crusades from the perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim world