Ep 151: Nicholas Morton on the Crusades

School of War · Oct 11, 2024 · 52m

Nicholas Morton, Senior Lecturer in History, Nottingham Trent University and author of The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187, joins the show to discuss the Crusades.

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Times

• 01:25 Introduction

• 02:21 What were the Crusades?

• 07:30 Franks and Turks

• 09:57 Combat

• 14:01 50/50

• 19:48 Sieges

• 23:47 Others

• 31:31 Seljuks

• 36:50 Crusader States

• 41:28 Why did they fail?

• 45:19 Continuity and complexity

• 49:45 Fluidity

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