The Children's Crusade : medieval history, modern mythistory /
The Children's Crusade was possibly the most extraordinary episode in the history of the crusades. The pueri (children, youngsters) of 1212 set out to recover Jerusalem and the True Cross in medieval Europe's first youth movement. Over the centuries their unarmed crusade has been imagined...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
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