Quote by Neal Stephenson

“The supposedly eyewitness authority of the Pseudo-Turpin finds a parallel in another genre in which vernacular prose was pioneered: that of the historical memoir.…

— Sarah Cay Terence Cave Malcolm Bowie

“Sir Steven Runciman, whose history of the Crusades is an imperishable work, because it demonstrates that medieval Christian fundamentalism not only constituted a menace…

— Christopher Hitchens

“TO BE “THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it” was the primary function of the Crusades,”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it…

— Aldous Huxley

“Mackay had a low opinion of all Crusades. The Children’s Crusade struck him as only slightly more sordid than the ten Crusades for grown-ups.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.”

— Alasdair MacIntyre

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

— Hilaire Belloc

“.. The slaughter lasted the best part of two days. When it was over, the crusade leaders went in solemn procession to the church…

— Geoffrey Hindley

“The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The…

— Rodney Stark

“Always be comic in a tragedy”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Low comedy, empty heroics and pointless death”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn