Although the crusaders came upon an ancient urban society, Ellenblum argues that they neither completely abandoned their rural European lifestyle, nor was European society completely rural to begin with.
尽管十字军来到了一个古代的城市社会，艾伦布鲁姆辩称他们既没有完全放弃他们乡村式的欧洲生活方式，也没有开始一个完全乡村化的欧式社会。