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Jonathan Riley-Smith Quotes

1938–2016 England

Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith (27 June 1938 – 13 September 2016) was an English historian of the Crusades.

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The disposal of assets...in the fairly remote possibility of settlement in the East would have been a stupid gamble. It makes much more sense to suppose...that they were moved by an idealism which must have inspired not only them but their families.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan Riley-Smith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.