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The significance of Lepanto.(Battle of Lepanto)
SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, there has been quite an outpouring of books dealing with the historical relationship between Islam and the Christian West. This has included a number of surveys of the history of that relationship, some emphasising conflict and bloodshed and others the sometimes harmonious association that at times existed between the two civilisations. New studies of the Crusades have emerged, including the first complete history of the movement since Runciman's classic work, in the shape of Christopher Tyerman's God's War.
The Battle of Lepanto has a major place in the symbolism of the Western-Islamic relationship, and Niccolo Capponi's recently ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The significance of Lepanto.(Battle of Lepanto)