Real Crusades History (Vanity)

Youtube ^ | Various | J Stephen Roberts

[P.O.E.]

I've been watching these for about a week now. I find them informative and well-sourced, with accompanying maps and illustrations. Each one lasts about 5-10 minutes. Here are two ways I browse through them. The first is thematic, the second chronological.

The Youtube homepage for the channel

Playlist in chronological order.

[P.O.E.]

Hope you find it as interesting as I have. Disclaimer: I have no financial or personal connection to this site or series. Just thought some of you would enjoy.

[DariusBane]

Ping me 4 later

[Chode]

[jafojeffsurf]

Good Stuff!

Thanks!

[visualops]

mark for self

[Steve Van Doorn]

I have always looked forward to J Stephen Roberts video's. He has a passion and clear understanding of the Crusades that you can hear in his voice.

[TexasTransplant]

Bump

[Portcall24]

Thanks. Two of my ancestors were killed in the Crusades.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Ping.

[TexasTransplant]

Just Two?

[Delmarksman]

Bumper

[Portcall24]

Two that I can trace...William de Ferrer and Phillip de Braose.

[SunkenCiv]

[Politicalkiddo]

Thanks!! I’ve been looking for a more truthful documentary forever!!

[Bigg Red]

Thank you. Looking forward to watching these.

[Duchess47]

Thanks for the ping.

[1010RD]

How many did they kill, though?

[Portcall24]

Seems they didn't keep body count like we did in Vietnam. But we have this regarding the battle of Jerusalem July 1099:

One of the Crusaders, Raymond of Aguilers joyfully recounted:

“With the fall of Jerusalem and its towers one could see marvelous work. Some of the pagans were mercifully beheaded, others pierced by arrows plunged from towers, and yet others, tortured for a long time, were burned to death in searing flames. Piles of heads, hands and feet lay in the houses and streets, and men and knights were sunning to and fro over corpses.” (Thomas Asbridge, The First Crusade-A New History, (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 316.)

A Latin eyewitness described how ‘all the defenders retreated along the walls and through the city, and our men went after them, killing them and cutting them down as far as the [Aqsa mosque] , where there was such a massacre that our men were wading up to their ankles in enemy blood’…So gruesome was the carnage that, according to one Latin, ‘even the soldiers who were carrying out the killing could hardly bear the vapours rising from the warm blood’. (Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades – The Authoritative History of the War For the Holy Land(Harper Collins Publishing, 2010), p. 101)

[Little Bill]

Sounds like a little bit of exaggeration on the commenter's part. What was the fate of those that gave up their arms.

[Portcall24]

I agree with the exaggeration. Most the writers would spin the story based upon who paid them. Kind of like now. I have no idea what happened to those that gave up their arms.