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Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099-1187). By Sylvia Schein. Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West. London: Ashgate, 2005. xvi + 239 pp. $89.95 cloth.
Sylvia Schein's contributions to medieval history and especially to the history of the crusades are well known. Her early death has deprived us and the University of Haifa of a valuable colleague and an innovative scholar. In the present work, she has left us with an insightful study of changing Latin views of Jerusalem from the age of Constantine to the end of the twelfth century. She has systematically combed the...