Yeah, apparently (from reading the more in-depth link that dervish posted) there was hardly any mention of Christianity, which is a huge omission considering the massive roles various forms of Christianity played in medieval politics, life, and culture. In my medieval history class, we spent about a week on Islam, and a touched on it again when we went over ‘The Song of Roland’, but we’ve been incredibly in-depth with certain aspects of Christianity just because they influenced so much. In fact, I don’t think we’ve had a single class so far that hasn’t required some discussion of Christianity in order to better understand what was going on. What in the world were those textbook makers thinking?
I also wonder if they mention that Jews and Arian Christians were targeted just as much as Muslims during ‘The Crusades’ - it wasn’t just Christians versus Muslims, the Christians and Muslims even wound up fighting against people of their own faiths at that time. Or the fact that the Muslims have been killing each other over differences in their faith for about 1300 years as of now... I’d bet that gets glossed over too.
You bet.