Posted: Aug 01, 2010 11:53 am
U-96 wrote:Yes and that's what I'm refering to, the crusades as a purely defensive war, the defense of Christendom.
It was a defence of the holy places in the east, not of "Christendom". They went to retake and hold the sacred sites of Christianity - Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem etc, not to defend Europe against Muslim encroachment, as Stark tries to claim.