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Armies of the Crusaders, 1096–1291 healthy eating A manuscript confiscated by theThe Crusades were among the most astonishing historical events that took place during the Middle Ages. After centuries of relative isolation following the fall of the Roman Empire, Western Europe looked again towards the Middle East in search of lands to conquer. Incited by the Church to believe that the Holy Land must be liberated from its Muslim rulers (who had by then occupied it for centuries), and that to do so would bring spiritual salvation,