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In trying to categorize a conflict as religious or holy, we might ask: Are they fighting this war primarily for religious reasons? If little or no religious motivation were present, would they still be fighting? The Crusaders provide a good example. Nobody in his right mind, even in the Middle Ages, would leave the comforts of home, pack up all his belongings, and march off for two thousand kilometers, endure incredible hardships, and face the very real threat of death unless he were religiously motivated.
Also no one live in comfortable at his home and other one come suddenly and attack him.
I will try to show the the western and the eastern view toward the crusade movement from 1095 to 1291

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Memoirs of the crusades

Jerusalem and the crusades

The crusades The flame of Islam

A History of the crusades VOLUME II

The crusades, the story of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem

Winning his spurs : a tale of the crusades

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The history of the Crusades, for the recovery and possession of the Holy Land

The life and letters of Edward Gibbon

The age of chivalry

Proctor's history of the Crusades

Miscellanies

Seven stories

Heroes of the middle ages (Alaric to Columbus)

Miscellaneous pamphlets

The Godfathers

Talisman. With introd. and notes

Maude and Miriam; or, The fair crusader

Knights and sea-kings; or, The middle ages

Via crucis; a romance of the second crusade

The history of chivalry

The history of the holy war

The children's crusade; an episode of the thirteenth century

The knights of the cross VOL 1

The knights of the cross VOL 2

The memoirs of the Lord of Joinville : a new English version

"God wills it!" A tale of the first crusade

The crusaders in the East

The first crusade; the accounts of eyewitnesses and participants

Angels In The Dust A Novel Of The First Crusade