A series of seven programmes in which historians tell the story of the first four Crusades and describe the different civilisations of Western Europe, Islam, and the Byzantine Empire which were involved in the conflict.
3-The Discovery of the East: Society
Speakers: R. H. C. Davis , Fellow of Merton College, Oxford; JOAN M. Hussey, Professor of History, Royal Holloway College, London; MICHAEL MACLAGAN. F.S.A., Fellow and Senior Tutor of Trinity College, Oxford; and RENE HAGUE
The speakers describe the sophisticated society of the Byzantine Empire, which profoundly affected life in the Latin States established in Palestine and Syria by the Crusaders.
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