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Under the motto "God wills it", hundreds of thousands of Europeans set out on crusade to liberate the Holy Land. The vision of holy war and the chivalric and Christian virtues that permeated the era came to color the Western European mentality. Even today, the era of the Crusades is alive in popular culture and through cultural-historical remains. Dick Harrison is professor of history at Lund University and has written over a hundred books on Swedish and international history. He is a columnist for Svenska Dagbladet. To a wider audience, he is also known as an expert in television and radio.