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Schein challenges the view that the fall of Acre in 1291 was a watershed dividing the "classical age" of the crusade from the late Middle Ages, when the ideal had become sterile, the obsessive dream of a handful of individuals. She shows instead that the desire to recover the Holy Land remained powerful and pervasive, and was an important consideration in the policy-making of European rulers.Schein, Sylvia is the author of 'Fideles Crucis The Papacy, the West, and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274-1314' with ISBN 9780198221654 and ISBN 0198221657.
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