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What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? W

Explores the Holy Land as a critical site where Catholics sought spiritual and political legitimacy during a period of profound change.

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The establishment of feudal principalities in the Levant in the wake of the First Crusade (1095-1099) saw the beginning of a centuries-long process of conquest