The Meme Crusades | Animated History of the Crusades

When people think of the Crusades, the first four Crusades are often the ones that come to mind. The Fourth Crusade was pretty memey, but there are some other, lesser-known Crusades that are even wackier.
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Dickson, Gary. “The Advent of the Pastores.” Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 66, fasc. 2, 1988. Histoire - Geschiedenis. pp. 249-267.
Dickson, Gary. “Shepherds’ Crusade, First.” The Crusades: an Encyclopedia, by Alan V. Murray, ABC-CLIO, 2006, pp. 1093-1094.
Gadberry, Glenn W. “The Stedingers: Nazi Festival Drama of the Destruction of a People.” Theatre History Studies, vol. 10, 1 Jan. 1990, pp. 105-126.
Jensen, Carsten Selch. “Stedinger Crusades.” The Crusades: an Encyclopedia, by Alan V. Murray, ABC-CLIO, 2006, pp. 1121-1122.
King, Wilson. “The Stedingers: The Story of a Forgotten Crusade.” Transactions for the First Session, Watson and Ball, Printers, 1884, pp. 52-76.
Lerner, Robert E. “The Uses of Heterodoxy: The French Monarchy and Unbelief in the Thirteenth Century.” French Historical Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 1965, pp. 189-202.
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Another meme crusades - Hussite Wars and 5 anti-Hussite crusades. All crushed by Hussites.

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