TY - BOOK AU - Schrader,Helena P. TI - The Holy Land in the era of the crusades : kingdoms at the crossroads of civilizations, 1100-1300 SN - 9781526787590 U1 - 9 CY - London : Pen and Sword History, 2022 N1 - Helena Schrader earned a PhD in History from Hamburg University in Germany before becoming a US diplomat in Africa and Europe N2 - The Near East in the era of the Crusades was home to diverse populations Orthodox and Latin Christians, Shia and Sunni Muslims, Jews and Samaritans. It was the meeting-point for Arab, Turkish, Byzantine and Frankish culture, the latter itself a mixture of Western traditions adapted to circumstances in the crusader states by the Europeans who had settled in the Holy Land ER -