ABSTRACT
In the historical culture of Georgia, the history of the Crusades is given a positive interpretation as it is told as the history of the alleviation from the oppression of the Seljuks. The Estonian historical culture presents another case, where, according to Selart, the Crusades are interpreted within the context of ‘seven hundred years of slavery’. Scarcely could a different quantitative analysis better illustrate just how disparate the phenomenon of the Crusades is understood. The contrasts within the historiography of the history of the Crusades, as differentiated earlier, are an expression of the differences of historical cultures, and demonstrate just how historiography as an institution is embedded in historical cultures. The historiography of the Crusades should be seen within the context of historical cultures, and exists within political, moral, aesthetic and religious patterns of interpretation that are relevant for society.
