The Crusades

271.153 - 298.902 Nathan W. Bingham

There weren't political effects of the Crusades. But he says when you go back and you study the records... and you look at what people were saying about their own motives at the time, it was not political or economic in the first place. In fact, he says over and over again, you can see people who acted against their political and economic interests to become involved with the Crusades.