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"Pan paniscus" <CLASSACT@BRICK.NET> wrote in message
news:1125106004.232103.14540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Dark Phoenix wrote:
> > "The Scythian Boogaloo of Fascinet" <fascinet@mad.scientist.com> wrote
in
> > message news:1124403189.724166.274680@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > > I'm currently reading The Oxford History of the Crusades, a set of
> > > essays my medievalists about crusades in the inclusive definition, at
> > > "lunch." <snip>
> > The book is scholarly, and has chapters on songs as literature and
> > > sources and the like. Apparently historians of medieval Europe
weren't
> > > particularly interested in the crusades, looking at them as
peripheral,
> > > and so orientalists and others dominated scholarship.
> >
> > !?!? I can't see how the crusades could be considered 'peripheral',
seems to
> > me like they affected European society a great deal, considering the
ideas
> > and 'things' the crusaders brought back with them. What were those
> > historians thinking??
>
> I'm reading The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro America. Hey, I got the
> book for free.
> >
> > --
> > Laurie, Dark Phoenix
>
> --Bryan
>
Nice to hear.
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