books.google.com - "Empire of Magic" offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that...http://books.google.com/books/about/Empire_of_Magic.html?id=z72iVa3TSscC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEmpire of Magic