Tag: Karl Friedrich Lessing

01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, THE ART OF WAR, Karl Friedrich Lessing’s The Return of the Crusader, with Footnotes #215

Apr 9, 2024

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Zaidan Art Blog

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Teutonic knight returning from the crusade; based on Karl Immermann’s poem “The Entry of the Crusaders”. The late Arnold Toynbee once referred to the crusades as “Christianized Viking expeditions,” and given the wanton destruction and killing that accompanied these Frankish invasions of Palestine, his description seems appropriate. But the crusades provided Western Christianity with its…