About the book: 1980 / Book by M.A. Zaborov draws the history of the wars of Western European chivalry and large feudal lords in Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt in the 11th–13th centuries, which took place in the form of crusades. Western chivalry carried out its conquests in the East, hiding behind the plausible pretext of “defending the West” and the Christian religion from the “infidels” - Muslims. A lively and fascinatingly written book is based on a wealth of factual sources - chronicles, legal documents, literary works, as well as a large amount of recent literature on the topic..