"One of the most memorable twelfth-century observations about the crusade was how comfortable the soldiers felt around corpses. Two writers say, essentially, the people naturally feel horror at the dead, but the crusaders learned to walk among them and even sleep beside them. How did that happen? How did a basic human impulse, that crosses the medieval-modern divide, become lost?"
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