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@The1RedRooster4 жыл бұрын
Were Pilgrims who belonged to an Army, Richards, Barbossas or Phillip's paid well and what of the people who felt the NEED to join the Crusade, were they paid or seperated differently from the 'army'?
@nasalimbu30784 жыл бұрын
Fall of Roman empire
@honoriswithin4 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to reading it!
@stefanobi734 жыл бұрын
"Nothing that rivals the terror of the crusades" ...mongolian throat singing in the background.
@ihabhatim58254 жыл бұрын
Mongol invasion (huns weren't mongols) happened after the crusades tho.
@Todo474 жыл бұрын
@@ihabhatim5825 The Crusades were still ongoing during the Mongol invasions.
@thomasbc20113 жыл бұрын
Or the Byzantine Nikephoros Phokas aka “white death of the Saracens” you don’t get a name like that without a little terror.
@johnssmith40053 жыл бұрын
@Ardashir Iran was once an empire and just like every empire EVER it got to that position thru violence .
@Juubelimies3 жыл бұрын
@Ardashir He means Persian instead of Iranian. They were pretty terrifying at times.
@mrhowell68424 жыл бұрын
Christianity is a native religion of the region. It was born in Jerusalem and was endemic throughout the Middle East and North Africa before the Muslims invaded.
@RealCrusadesHistory4 жыл бұрын
You know what, you have a good point there...
@nickolaospappas44853 жыл бұрын
Yeap you are correct actually
@werther57572 жыл бұрын
@@samy7013 orthodox arent protestant
@nipoone61092 жыл бұрын
@@samy7013 The point is Christianity was in the Middle East and North Africa for hundreds of years by the time Islam came to the region.
@ziklag7676 Жыл бұрын
I had the exact same thought when he mentioned that in the video
@Duke_of_Lorraine4 жыл бұрын
"unprecedented hate" Cato the Elder : "hold my salt"
@ImCarolB3 жыл бұрын
LOL! Scipio salutes you.
@BrettonFerguson4 жыл бұрын
"Violence never seen before" Like the Romans in Dacia. The Romans in Jerusalem. The Romans in Carthage. Attila (The scourge of god), exterminating cities full of civilians. Just to name a few pre crusade, pre Christian events more violent than any crusade.
@nathanrobinson10994 жыл бұрын
The soft bigotry of low expectations strikes again
@johnssmith40053 жыл бұрын
@Jotaro97 Crusades are demonized by haters of Christianity especially the other 2 Abrahamic religions
@waynebrown95643 жыл бұрын
@@johnssmith4005 basically
@Juubelimies3 жыл бұрын
@@johnssmith4005 Exactly. Especially the one that starts with J is actively trying to demonize it from within.
@BrettonFerguson2 жыл бұрын
@Franc The Visigoths were just dreamers who wanted a better life for their families.
@williamf.buckleyjr32274 жыл бұрын
It's weird. In 1986 (9th grade), I had a World History teacher who was fantastic. And in 1986 he warned our little, young MushMinds that books such as the garbage you hold in your hands would be coming. Objectivity and a desire to cultivate THOUGHT still existed as recent as the 1980s. Just, wow.
@ocdplaylistmaker70324 жыл бұрын
I had a teacher assistant warn us in biology class in high school (2015) to watch out for unethical stuff in the future regarding biology. That's all I remember. But similar kind of thing.
@notbot88304 жыл бұрын
Probably an old soul
@galenusv78314 жыл бұрын
There's always good honest people. The problem is that they don't give them press nor promotions anymore. I will simplify it and just say that the baddies thrive on lobbying.
@ocdplaylistmaker70324 жыл бұрын
@@galenusv7831 I am so confused by the contradictions in the media, I don't know what to believe anymore, it's so confusing.
@cecilspurlockjr.94212 жыл бұрын
It's gone now though isn't it buddy .
@jacobivy28544 жыл бұрын
As a Catholic and registered nurse, I LOVE that shirt you’re rocking.
@joshuaharrell132 жыл бұрын
As a Christian and a soldier, I am also loving that shirt!
@tomgriffin4774 жыл бұрын
Why Does the Heathen Rage - Awesome novel by J. Stephen Roberts - Highly recommend to everyone watching this and please support Knights of the Cross!
@RealCrusadesHistory4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Tom!
@terrybogars89333 жыл бұрын
@@RealCrusadesHistory do you speak any middle eastern languages If you want to talk about middle eastern history You have to know at least some middle eastern languages
@stephencampbell27352 жыл бұрын
@@terrybogars8933 so there's no information whatsoever that can be gleaned from translations or westerner eye witness reports? It is mostly a crusades history channel, after all. Lots of westerners there in that era.
@bogulatow57422 жыл бұрын
Yiddish?
@甘明忠-u8m4 жыл бұрын
What?! A Rolling Stone contributor who’s dishonest?! Who would have thought😄
@timothymacdonnell907910 ай бұрын
Really interesting and insightful. Even in Catholic school, they said the Crusaders were evil and abominable savages. I’m glad you set the record straight.
@martinbonniciphotography4 жыл бұрын
Yet another reason I love the Real Crusades History channel. I totally appreciate your clinical examination about history J. It's very important for proper education that we can understand what we are looking at warts and all. Looking forward to Knights of the Cross too.
@williamf.buckleyjr32274 жыл бұрын
Rolling Stone magazine has....words? Not just photos?! Do the subscribers know that?
@loganbagley78222 жыл бұрын
I am really grateful for your channel. It is a good counterweight to a lot of the disingenuous garbage that I hear about the Crusades. Keep up the good work.
@RealCrusadesHistory2 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that!
@VictorianTimeTraveler4 жыл бұрын
It is, much harder to pass this crap off nowadays. Because of the internet and quite frankly you in particular are a huge part of that.
@ryangerrard40484 жыл бұрын
Great video, also worth noting that the raids in the Mediterranean by Muslims powers didn't stop in the 11th century, in fact up until the 18th century, slaves were taken from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and even as far away as the southern coast of England & the western part of Ireland , also Iceland! America even went to war with the Barbary states because they took Americans as slaves! Nobody seems to want to talk about the millions of eastern Europeans, Ukrainians & Russians that were forced into slavery due to the ottomans, Mongols, etc! I guess if it's white people been enslaved it doesn't fit a certain narrative!
@kevinhayes69334 жыл бұрын
Ryan Gerrard yes a fellow historian, who knows his history. Spot on
@diarradunlap93374 жыл бұрын
The English word "slave" is a derivative of "Slav", as during the Medieval period in Europe so many Slavs were taken and sold into slavery.
@combobulous70443 жыл бұрын
@Jotaro97 I thought the Latin word for slave was ‘servus’.... do correct me if I’m wrong
@nalublackwater97293 жыл бұрын
@Jotaro97 Slave comes from Slav. The Latin for slave is "servus". That "slavus" thing is like the "bigus dickus" joke.
@JBroughton23 жыл бұрын
Jotaro97 I got this from Wiktionary, Slave Etymology: “From Middle English, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclāvus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclāvus (“Slav”), because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages.[1][2][3][4][5] The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), see that entry and Slav for more.”
@michaelman957 Жыл бұрын
I am so grateful that folks like you sink so much time into correcting the errors.
@drfye4 жыл бұрын
🤔"Early 2000's", "Rolling stone"........I mean , who would have thought , right? 🤣
@DarthKieduss3 жыл бұрын
In 1096 the Levant was a battlefield and The Crusaders basically were like "Player 3 has entered the game"
@honoriswithin4 жыл бұрын
These people can't even be honest about what chivalry really is rather than the self hatred for courtship they tout it to be. Really pisses me off.
@edwingrove14424 жыл бұрын
this channel is an echo bubble
@augustusalexander57743 жыл бұрын
@@edwingrove1442 cope
@edwingrove14423 жыл бұрын
@@augustusalexander5774 ha funny
@jacobitewiseman36962 жыл бұрын
Courtship is not fornication it's stuff like dancing or having her ride thy horse of thy lover
@forthfarean4 жыл бұрын
This chap is a superb historian. His work is excellent and enjoyable. Thank you.
@RealCrusadesHistory4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@forthfarean4 жыл бұрын
Real Crusades History I always enjoy your videos . They are superbly researched and put to shame all those pseudo historians out there these day.
@shanny43064 жыл бұрын
Love clarifying history,there are written records from the times,it,s good to avoid changing history,thankyou real crusades
@philippebrunot46623 жыл бұрын
You forgot to say that those land were not only initially Christian countries conquered by Muslims but that when the crusades happened, they were still mostly inhabited by Christians. In Egypt, Palestine or Syria, Christians became a minority only at the end of middle ages.. It was rather freeing christian countries than conquering islamic ones.
@samy70132 жыл бұрын
“Freeing Christian countries”? Yeah, sure, except for the part where Catholics viewed any Christian who wasn’t a Catholic as a heretic and schismatic. Are you aware that there were possibly dozens of “crusades” waged by Catholics against Orthodox, Hussite, Bogomil, Cathar, Lutheran, and other Protestant Christians?
@KareliaCrimea3 ай бұрын
This content deserves more views! Very interesting and valid, fills in blanks from what is taught in school. Ps, i am a historian by education.
@nathanielrourke88864 жыл бұрын
It should always set off a little alert in your head when you can tell the author is rooting for one side.
@kevinhayes69334 жыл бұрын
Nathaniel Rourke this Rolling Stone journalist is more left than a left turn. Should open his eyes and his mind
@ftdefiance14 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this counter balance to current amnesia
@YetiMama4 жыл бұрын
You’re the man. I love your material.
@IronJagerick4 жыл бұрын
Stumbled across the channel. Great video, look foward to more
@eddy_malouempereur_du_cong65362 жыл бұрын
In Provence (in the south east of France ) nearly all the villages are on top of hill because of the muslims raids.
@KareliaCrimea3 ай бұрын
Interesting input, thanks!
@titanscerw8 ай бұрын
Awesome work J. Stephen Roberts!
@TheModernHermeticist4 жыл бұрын
Good stuff, as always!
@AMCmachine4 жыл бұрын
Victor Davis Hanson in fact described Alexander's relentless and victorious drive into the Persian Empire as, in a sense, "the first Western Crusade." And that of course was well BEFORE Christianity or Islam existed.
@andrjsh4 жыл бұрын
There is also the theory that the Emperor Heraclius' war against the Persians in the 7th century was "the first crusade".
@kaiserproductions12783 жыл бұрын
It's just demonization of any war pursued by the West because 'crusade' is popularly used to refer to something unjust and superstitious.
@Xargxes3 жыл бұрын
I remember reading somewhere that virtually all crusaders returned home with a net loss of money, based on some data from Galician and Occitanian crusaders who would take off with lots of money and, armament etc. and return with basically nothing.
@Retirement0204201227 күн бұрын
So appreciate this information because it’s so easy to place our modern thinking on this critical topic.
@thecrusaderhistorian98203 жыл бұрын
Great video. You are a real historian.
@shafur34 жыл бұрын
So happy to hear you set the story right. Thank You.
@RealCrusadesHistory4 жыл бұрын
You are so welcome
@rioverde1234 жыл бұрын
Great information.
@PureCleanCarpetOatley4 жыл бұрын
Excellent. Thanks for calmly getting the real historical facts out there 🙂
@JaJDoo4 жыл бұрын
suggesting that the crusades were somehow unprecedented in terms of violence ... did this person ever hear of roman conquests?
@lordblenkinsopp15374 жыл бұрын
Hona Hona which weren’t actually that bloody in a lot of areas.
@oscardom__4 жыл бұрын
I really liked this video keep up the fine work sir 💪🏻
@geraldchurchill55764 жыл бұрын
I knew as soon as you described the author as "some guy", that this "some guy" was going to be in for a roast.
@Army4Runner4 жыл бұрын
Excellent commentary.
@dickthebutcher58044 жыл бұрын
I would congratulate you for your brilliant critique; but you were only up against an intellectual midget. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
@stephanyandrews6854 жыл бұрын
I just discovered your channel. Awesome!
@jmdomaniii4 жыл бұрын
this (the book) is what happens when fedoras do history
@Elsupermayan88704 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Like when they (fedoras) used to talk about the history of Christmas on The History Channel.
@Rodrici10 ай бұрын
@@Elsupermayan8870 what's the size of the fedora is it tiny ?
@Elsupermayan887010 ай бұрын
@@Rodrici Go look and find out.
@glen-y8p4 жыл бұрын
I remember something my history teacher once told me about the crusades. To show how desperate the eastern (orthodox church) were against Arab attacks, apparently the eastern pope hated the roman pope but with the constant attacks and enslavement of Christian settlements, he no choice to ask him for help. I’m not sure how accurate this is but its always something that stuck with me.
@nenabunena3 жыл бұрын
The east had no pope, they had an emperor
@Michael_the_Drunkard3 жыл бұрын
@@nenabunena a patriarch
@malicant1233 жыл бұрын
Rolling stone and vanity fair? I think I see the problem alright.
@barrywerdell26144 жыл бұрын
I acquaint the book you first showed to those ancient alien and Bermuda triangle books that were so popular in the seventies and eighties. Big on thrills, low on facts.
@mizztanya27633 жыл бұрын
equate, not acquaint. otherwise totally agreed.
@alangervasis3 жыл бұрын
15:29 You made a slight mistake in saying ".. neither is christianity". Christianity was indeed a native religion of that area in the fact that it grew out of Judea/Palestine.
@RealCrusadesHistory3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, you're very right about this. I thought of that later after I'd finished. Need to add a little note in the description.
@samy70132 жыл бұрын
@@RealCrusadesHistory : Catholicism wasn’t native or endemic to the Middle East and North Africa. Also, let’s not forget the part where Catholics viewed any Christian who wasn’t a Catholic as a heretic and schismatic. Looking at the big picture: Have we forgotten that there were possibly dozens of “crusades” waged by Catholics against Orthodox, Hussite, Bogomil, Cathar, Lutheran, and other Protestant Christians?
@nipoone61092 жыл бұрын
@@samy7013 You realized you debunked yourself? Catholicism wasn't native to the region but Christianity as a whole was. You even listed the branch that was, Orthodox. There were no crusades against Protestant Christians as by the time Protestantism arose as by that time the Pope held little sway over Europe's monarchs and definitely didn't have the authority to launch more crusades.
@MrBrownnn6964 жыл бұрын
Interesting thanks for the video...
@sams30464 жыл бұрын
thanks for addressing the fragmentation of the Islamic world during this period, low information stuff about the Crusades doesn't touch that important context at all
@suzleber43 жыл бұрын
"Unhistorical" may be one of the best words I've heard in a long time lol
@Castle8054 жыл бұрын
Good video excellent detail.🛡🗡
@tonyfluerty10323 жыл бұрын
I mean how far do you want to go back? Perhaps the Hittite Empire vs Egypt because you simply have to start somewhere. The point is the middle east has been one big ongoing battle ground since for ever. The grasslands of the fertile crescent was the great prize for those coming out of the asian steppes. To say the crusades bought a new level of violence never seen before to the Middle east proves one thing. The person who wrote that garbage was an ignorant fool.
@petercroves85624 жыл бұрын
yeah and 200 years?, depending on one view the crusades were still going on during the 1500s to the 1700s
@TheTenthLeper4 жыл бұрын
Hey, it's Jay Stephen Roberts!
@kevinjaimes514 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the review. This book is/was on my shelf unread. It’s getting traded in. A real shame as I bought it because it appeared to be extremely popular in the subject. I can imagine a large amount of people reading it and assuming it to be factual. A real shame.
@franknada82354 жыл бұрын
Then dont trade it. Burn it. Dont pass on the evilness of lies to anyone, is my opinion.
@venus_envy4 ай бұрын
@@franknada8235 Or, read it and heavily annotate it in red pen, then donate it or leave it in one of those "free book" cupboards on the road for someone to pick up. Pass on the correction and show that there is misinformation out there that people ought to be aware of.
@tomgriffin4773 жыл бұрын
Crusade is more of a modern term and thus we refer to each expedition as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. But in the time period the Crusades were actually taking place, how did medieval Christians refer to them?
@KareliaCrimea3 ай бұрын
I shared this on a different (relevant) channel hoping to cross polinate a bit (so to speak)
@zacharywitt40094 жыл бұрын
Love your simple one-sentence conclusion!
@Sprock494 ай бұрын
Well said. New member here
@TRYCLOPS14 жыл бұрын
Those are lies we were fed. It’s very dumb. But thanks for being a light in the darkness!
@deem74783 жыл бұрын
This is what happens when journalists try to be historians.
@MrRobfullarton4 жыл бұрын
Have you covered much on Charles V's wars with Suleiman I?
@DiamondMind4 жыл бұрын
Thank goodness I didn’t buy this book. It was in my Amazon basket.
@frostghost75_62 жыл бұрын
Yo I’m loving that shirt
@eddy_malouempereur_du_cong65362 жыл бұрын
We leave in deaply cynical world. The fought that so munch people where ready to take so much risk for spiritual motivation with little material win is totaly alien for a lot of us
@Benjaminy2k4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the book was awful, then.
@mikecain69474 жыл бұрын
Saladin was a Kurd.
@logan37413 жыл бұрын
3:45 I’m starting to notice that Turks and Armenians don’t go well.
@Hansenvision3 жыл бұрын
I would love to hear your review of good and bad books to read.
@doylekitchen97953 жыл бұрын
Try this link from his website.. www.realcrusadeshistory.com/reading-list
@shanny43064 жыл бұрын
Any religion can have fanatical factions .
@nathanrobinson10994 жыл бұрын
Nope only g tv he West - Academia
@rkqch0662 жыл бұрын
As much as we all say we want to be 100% honest and truthful about history, we all have a natural bias based on our CURRENT philosophical beliefs. That book is a prime example of that. "Rewriting history", happens by almost every nationality and religious belief. And those who have no religious belief STILL has belief about religion. This affects every single person in the world. It affects every one of us. We all have a predisposed idea of how we think the world should be. And then we look at history though those glasses. We can't even all agree on current events... Much less historic ones! That's why wars (crusades or any other names we want to call it) have been fought in times past, why they are being fought now, and why wars will continue to be fought into the future. Wars are fought over land and beliefs. Some good wars. Some bad wars. We all agree with, "the good wars"... and we all disagree with "the bad wars". But we can't all agree on which wars are good, and which wars are bad. I do like these videos. They are very informative and they are presented with as much balance as possible.
@VitorEmanuelOliver4 жыл бұрын
The guy in the thumbnail looks a lot like Rodrigo Santoro
@inhocsignovinces64724 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the true
@ImCarolB3 жыл бұрын
At least the preface didn't offer an apology on behalf of the human race.
@robju60544 жыл бұрын
Do you have any information about the Knight Albero de Cagnauo 1064 to 1100. I believe he fought in the first Crusade for Jerusalem. Thank you
@zackhartley47184 жыл бұрын
I picked up a book a while back called ‘The Crusades’ by Thomas Asbridge. Any thoughts on this book and author?
@doylekitchen97953 жыл бұрын
It is good. It is on his reading list www.realcrusadeshistory.com/reading-list
@blimy01maynard304 жыл бұрын
It's been a long time since high school but didn't Rome wage holy wars in this region?
@nalublackwater97294 жыл бұрын
Rome never based its wars on religion, but on military expansion. Then they brought their customs, laws and religion, but it never was a spiritual business.
@kaiserproductions12783 жыл бұрын
The Romans believed that to start a war it had to be self defense otherwise their Gods would get mad. So I suppose, every Roman war was a religious one.
@johnbraswell54834 жыл бұрын
Is your book available on audio?
@quintenvankasteel24374 жыл бұрын
Hey dude. Love what you do. Quick question: what's your opinion on Dan Jones' books? Specifically The Crusades
@aitornavarro65972 жыл бұрын
You play guitar or is it just decoration?
@RealCrusadesHistory2 жыл бұрын
I play: kzbin.info
@lo35724 жыл бұрын
A pedaltrain nano
@davitsurguladze66434 жыл бұрын
John Green doesn't approve this video
@jacobitewiseman36962 жыл бұрын
Well John green also thinks high taxes are a good thing.
@soja.nism99Ай бұрын
Sa ngalan ng Ama, at ng Anak, at ng Espiritu Santo. Amen