I just came across this video, and your channel for the first time, and I just wanted to leave a comment saying thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I was looking for videos about this specific era in history to direct a friend to that could teach her better than I could and I found exactly what I was looking for in your channel! Thanks!

@RealCrusadesHistory

4 жыл бұрын

thanks very much!

@robertconnolly8530

2 жыл бұрын

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I love history

@leahcimolrac1477

4 жыл бұрын

History loves you, too.

@benknight7130

4 жыл бұрын

Why read Game of Thrones when the real thing is far more interesting

@jonathanwells223

4 жыл бұрын

@@benknight7130 and mindbogglingly more complex

@benknight7130

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanwells223 honestly man. Ive just devled into The plantagenet family - a great and terrible king by Marc Morris - so enthralling learning of the stories, adventures, upbringings, relationships, near death experiences, politics and war. Love it

@Rahburry

4 жыл бұрын

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Short answer: Seljuk turks Long answer: (this video)

Very comprehensive and easily followed. Much obliged. 🤠

@RealCrusadesHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

The living conditions of Eastern Christians (among whom catholics like the maronites) was also a deciding factor.

Thank you for providing a impartial view on the Crusades.

I admire your work. Medieval history is so fascinating

@RealCrusadesHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Thank you including the Gregorian Reforms. I think the consolidation of powers was the biggest contributing factor. Prior to the 11th century, Europe was made of individual warlords, both pagan and Christian, even the church was very fragmented. Yes, Charlemagne started consolidation of power, but really the consolidation of England, stronger leadership in France, the powerhouses forming on the Iberian Peninsula, and the Church itself taking a more centralized power role. The formation of these nation states allowed wealth and trade to form, and also allowed leaders to have the luxury of going on a foreign war. Meanwhile, Islam was fracturing from it's centralized power to being independent groups, so it was a good time for the crusades to take place.

@RealCrusadesHistory

4 жыл бұрын

This is a really good summary of what was going on. The consolidation of power was very important, but the ideological component was essential as well. Without that, you'd have no reason for the various western powers to collaborate in such an ambitious project.

@DG-jq7il

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree, the two work together, and I think the centralization of the church helped the consolidation of the main powers. It also gave a true diplomatic option to the more powerful rulers to meet and exchange ideas through an "international" organization.

@soulreaper5510

4 жыл бұрын

The crusades was the only thing that united the christian world against an essential threat to christendom as they called it so yet those 'independant' groups were able to hold off ur forces

@Powerofriend

4 жыл бұрын

I've entertained this idea, for a while now, that once the ideological mindset of us vs them between christian and islamic power blocks was established it was inevitable for a feudal society to channel their second sons and excess wealth toward obtaining more land from the other group. The more powerful the Latin kings were within their own respective domains the more likely it was that their vassals wouldn't have the option of settling their own border wars through bloodshed. Since a lineage only needs a single heir to inherit the family holdings the second third and so forth sons would have been eager to throw their lot in with a lord tha could promise them land in the east. The need for expansion was ever present for the nobility of a feudal society but the religious narrative bound them into an army with a singular purpose.

@robertlehnert4148

4 жыл бұрын

@@Powerofriend that is the "Runciman Thesis" (Sir Stephen Runciman, professor of Byzantine history) and it had increasingly, over the last 40 years, been disproven. It was already implausible when the late Terry Jones fronted the BBC program _Crusades_ in the 1990s, but it was repeated verbatim and uncritically. I and actual medieval academics say it is disproven because the records of who went on Crusade, among the Noble ranks, was overwelmingly the nobles themselves or their first sons, the immeadiate heirs, both categories having the most to lose. Crusading was an expensive undertaking, nobles had to take out loans on their fiefs, up to two or three years income, to outfit themselves or their heirs. Other sons (if not going into the Church), were, other than the purchase of second grade armor, weapons, and horse, were pretty much on their own in life and going on Crusade was NOT a path to riches-- more like a miserable death from disease along the way and everyone knew that.

Great to get this wider context and perspective. Been asking for this. Ask and you shall receive.

In total war terms, Umayyad caliphate raid farmed the iberian minor factions till the rebel doomstacks spawned to ruin their campaign.

@GeorgeSoucy

3 жыл бұрын

THE DOOM STACKS!

Hey J, hope you are well

@RealCrusadesHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Doing well and you my friend?

What Books do you people recommend on the Crusades & the Knights Templar’s that isn’t Corrupted & Lies about them? Please let me know

@pablodee9024

3 жыл бұрын

Hillaire Belloc

@willienilliemcnamara1236

3 жыл бұрын

What kind of Corruption and Lies are u talking about if you dont mind me asking?

I want to suggest you something that might be fun; analyze the historical errors in movies set in the middle ages. I for example would like to do it on El Cid, which I like a lot anyway.

I good comprehensive explanation. Thanks for your work.

Thank you! This was quite an eye opener and welcome expansion on the subject for me! I like the way it simultaniously debunks the myth regarding the medieval times as being void of development.

I really appreciate your channel. My studies have been from 1330’s to 1450’s. I really didn’t have much knowledge about the crusades. Your channel has really helped to educate me about the crusades and the garbage I’ve heard from alleged history channels and modern apologist asking forgiveness from Islam for the past Crusades is dung. Thank you for your channel and educating people like me. Your book references are invaluable. My step daughter bought me a book about Richard and Saladin. She had great intentions but the book was garbage. Not even written by a historian. Now I have great references from you. God bless you and thank you.

@user-cg2tw8pw7j

10 ай бұрын

The Crusaders: O European barbarians, are you fighting the infidels, the Bulgarians, the criminals, and the Roman sons of Esau?

Admire this vid. Very good job. Keep it up! Thanks.

@RealCrusadesHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

@constantinkelleher5444

4 жыл бұрын

@@RealCrusadesHistory no thank you. Because of you I can finally understand the crusades fully and with truth.

Excellent video, RCH, excellent video.

Thank you for the video. I've watched a video about the Reconquista a while back and for some reason the narrator started to say something about Andalusia being an opportunity to have a multicultural civilizatolion, which doesn't sit right for me at that time due to the slave trade. This clears a lot of stuff regarding it.

Thanks for this convincing lecture.

Excellent documentary!!! Worlds above anything on television. Thx for all the Truth you spread with this channel. BONA NATALE!!! DEVS LO VVLT

@RealCrusadesHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated

Really excellent! Thank you.

@RealCrusadesHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Excellent!

Well done! 😎👍

Awesome channel 👍

Very interesting history. You have an enviable library of Crusaders. Thanks for sharing. I love your blazer fashion with sports shirt. 😍 History for all.

great video!

Excellent explanation. Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam!

I love this

Outstanding video! Love this history with out the politics of today involved very good stuff here love the channel. Will be getting a Hospitilazer tee shirt 😁

Turns out im a decendant of King Fulk King of Jerusalm who is a decendant of King Boldwin the 3rd of Jerudalm. I had no idea till just a month ago. So i do have a real connection of thr film Kingdom Of Heaven. Crazy

Why the crusaders in the early 1,500 they took the cross of Jesus and the bones of John the Baptist to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 they still there i think they forgot about it. If anyone read this and they know about it please the crusaders let some stuff back in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Excellent

@RealCrusadesHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Thank you for this video it put in context that the Europeans were fighting a two-front war with Islam and their own infighting Viking raids and times shoving Christianity down other European throats only added to the mess. If a loose federation of the Western Roman Empire had held together that might have changed history preventing a foothold in Iberia by the Moors and checking Viking raids at least on continental Europe.

@RealCrusadesHistory

4 жыл бұрын

I doubt the Roman Empire was any less messy. History is messy. Medieval Christendom wasn't unusual in that way. But in the end, Christianity mostly proved to be a key unifying factor in the period.

Awesome!

The Arab historians were very critic of the Seljuc Turks...who were accused of causing the Crusades. Early Arabs were more tolerant and have made deals with the Christians who were allowed to pray in the holy lands. Turks did not contribute a lot in the Islamic golden age..the Persians on the other hand were the ones who provided the intellectuals. Turks were only good militarily

@jaredhomola3066

Жыл бұрын

Just as any other tribe who rises off the suburbs and crumbs of Christian and Buddhist nations turning to heresy as the only way to stab his enemy who he calls brother in the back

Amazing content. I have been binge watching all of your videos! You seem to be very connected to the Crusades, were your ancestors involved? My ancestors were Israelites, and I an curious to know yours!

watching the chat, I feel there will be a commentary video soon enougth

You ARE incredible with your detail. Can you shed some light on the 4th Crusade, which I believe was between Grand Duke Mindaugus of Lithuania vs the Teutonic knights. Really weird but I'm a distant, distant relative of Vytautas the Great. Lol, I hope you know what and who I'm talking about. Thank you!

@RealCrusadesHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much. The Fourth Crusade was the one that was diverted to Constantinople.

I love your channel! super nice job with presentation of history

Thanks

@RealCrusadesHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Im asian but I love your lectures on european history. I did nt know europeans at that time didnt have the concept of European as a unifying identity until the crusades. I thought it existed before that during the Roman Empire.

@braydencole6117

3 жыл бұрын

Even during the Roman era we didn't have it. The Italic peoples of Rome (Italia) saw the Gallic and Germanic Peoples around them as savage barbarians. At the height of the Roman Empire, it was less a collective European Identity, more the Latin cultural assimilation and the dedication to the Roman state and the idea of Rome that united it's citizens and subjects.

You never ask my grandpa about it mi abuelo use to have a old dagger of gold and Esmeralda y rubíes he told me from the old war

Excellent. Please come back. Let us know the sources.

It would be great to see the religious, ethnic and national movements century by century over a map of the world including Byzantine, Turkish, Norse, Anglo, Frank, Christian, Islamic, Buddhist and Hindu (some of these countries were conquered by Islam).

I Love you!

Also, wasn´t the idea of crusades formed at least partially on holy war ghazis in Iberia? I´ve read something about this being seminal in creating military orders.

Could you enter the citations/books under your video? Making citations in it is rather counter-productive. Please!'

What are your sources I keep searching for legit crusade sources to read these books yet I never find any

@morriganmhor5078

4 жыл бұрын

Try those before sixties and Jonathan Riley-Smith.

What is the wealth of Syria and the 'holy land'? Is it the trade routes, religion or something else? I just often hear there is wealth there but what was it? The tin from Afghanistan?

What gave Christian Europe the economic power to push back against the Muslims? What Trade and with whom? Thanks

@osaft2go830

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks to the vikings. You may think of them as raiders, but most were traders

@alfgui3295

4 жыл бұрын

The "enemies of commerce" by Antonio Escohotado talks about you are asking for, how commerce collapsed in western Europe where a proto-communism ideology born from Christianity and the collapse of Rome was formed and how capitalism came back. There was an example about 1 french or english? guy who became one of the richest men in western Europe during the 9 or 10 th centuries? who created an enterprise dedicated to escort merchants, cleaning roads from bandits and weed, helping to reactivate the inner commerce in France and also with England?. I did not read the book and i'm too vague because of that, but well, i hope you get the idea, thanks to that reactivation of commerce cities thrived and with them a middle-class not controlled by feudalism, boosting the wealth of western Europe.

@KristinkaAranova

4 жыл бұрын

Contrary to popular belief, 11th-13th century Europe was not poor at all

One of my favorite series, James Burke's The Day the Universe Changed, said it straightforward: it gave the brigands something to attack indiscriminately other than back home!

Could you please suggest unbiased sources to know more about this please

@RealCrusadesHistory

4 жыл бұрын

I mentioned several books in this video.

@milop1034

4 жыл бұрын

@@RealCrusadesHistory Yeah yeah. Got them thanks

Do you have any interest in the almogavars?

Please write a Non-Fiction Book about the Crusades

At the end of your videos you should play bardcore on you tube at the end of your videos. Its modern music played on medival instruments sung in the particular language of the time period.

Hell, Hungary didn't even exist until 1001 CE.

The European warrior spirit goes back to the indo European peoples. The Eurasian step horse Lords. Italic, Germanic, Slavic , Greek; all of us Europeans derive from them. DEVS LO VVLT

@LucidWanderer

3 жыл бұрын

We worshiped the Aryan gods then, not Jesus, Christianity had nothing to do with the ancient Indo-European warrior ethos.

i don't care who started what, i love the crusaders because they were badass warriors in awsome armor 🙂

@jackieann5494

2 жыл бұрын

😅😂👍❤️

Spain? Why not visigotic Kingdom?

@ivannovak4711

3 жыл бұрын

Hes Galkin About the region

@ivannovak4711

3 жыл бұрын

Talking

I'd like to see some videos on Charlemagne. Would you consider his Christianization of Europe a crusade?

@Juan-qu4oj

Жыл бұрын

Not really it wasn’t a war and conquest

@TheChuckfuc

Жыл бұрын

@@Juan-qu4oj but a big part of it was religious conversions. Since charlemagne was a very pious man. I think Christianizing Europe a big part of his plan.

@user-cg2tw8pw7j

10 ай бұрын

​@@TheChuckfucstupid man

To save what is left, and return what belongs to the people.

why you are you saying Saracens