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With the conquest of Jerusalem on July 17, 1099, something qualitatively novel happened in world history (in general, see Bysted et al. in Jerusalem in the North. Denmark and the Baltic Crusades, 1100–1522. Brepols, Turnhout, 2012; Jensen in Crusading at the Edges of Europe. Denmark and Portugal c.1000–c.1250. Routledge, London, 2017). The Crusaders had done what no one had ever done before; they had recaptured the Holy City from the pagans, as was formulated at the time. Knowledge of Islam was still scarce or non existent in Western Europe.
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Bregnsbo, M., Jensen, K.V. (2022). Crusade Empires in the Baltic. In: The Rise and Fall of the Danish Empire. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91441-7_4
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