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Tabletalk Magazine, May 2011: The 11th Century: Conflict, Crusades, and the New Christendom is unavailable, but you can change that!

The May 2011 issue of Tabletalk continues our ongoing series on the history of the church. It focuses on the eleventh century looking at the great schism between the churches in the East and West, the investiture controversy, the crusades, and Anselm of Canterbury. Contributors include R. C. Sproul, Michael Brown, Mark Driscoll, Robert Godfrey, Justin Holcomb, Keith Mathison, Nick Needham,...

the West, especially to Venice, where they can still be found today. The West established the Latin Empire of Constantinople there (1204–1261) and the pope created a Latin patriarchate that submitted to Rome. Both of these actions infuriated the Byzantine Orthodox, and although the Byzantine Empire was restored in 1261, it never fully recovered from the trauma of this crusade. The fifth crusade was led by the Holy Roman emperor, Frederick II. He gained control of Jerusalem by negotiations, promising
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