
The Era of the Crusades
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Kenneth W. Harl
About this listen
What were the forces that led to one of history's most protracted and legendary periods of conflict? How did they affect the three great civilizations that participated in them? And, ultimately, why did they end and what did they accomplish?
In these thirty-six dlectures, you'll look at the "big picture" of the Crusades as an ongoing period of conflict involving Western Christendom (we would now call it Western Europe), the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world. From this perspective, you'll study the complex but absorbing causes of the Crusades, which include the many political, cultural, and economic changes in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. You'll examine the Crusades in terms of the specific military campaigns-the eight "canonical" Crusades that took place from 1095-1291-proclaimed to retake Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim hands and return them to Christendom. You'll consider the immediate circumstances-the leaders, purposes, key battles, and degrees of success or failure-surrounding these often-monumental expeditions. You'll also explore a wide variety of misperceptions and long-debated questions about the Crusades. Did the popes preach the Crusades as a way to increase their personal power and authority? Why did the members of the Fourth Crusade decide to sack Constantinople, turning the Crusades from Christian against "infidel" to Christian against Christian?Taken together, these historically rich lectures are an opportunity to appreciate fully how Western Civilization changed in many profound ways during the Crusading era.
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©2003 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2003 The Great CoursesFascinating
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Wonderful
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pronunciation of terms, even non historical ones were often wrong or inconsistent, but I could ignore that.
The worst crime were clear historical errors. Specifically the talk of the "Double headed axe" used by the Vikings and English, citing the Bayeux Tapestry as evidence. These are the two handed but single headed Dane axe, double headed axes weren't used, and these single headed axes are clearly the ones on the Tapestry. Professor Harl also calls lamellar armour and Roman Lorica Segmentata the same thing, which they are not.
The man clearly knows his subject well in the broad terms but these mistakes in the finer detail, while perhaps minor, do make me feel less confident in his credibility in the areas I don't know much about but wanted to learn of.
Unfortunate Historical Inaccuracies
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Interesting story terrible narrator
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please remember that this is an overview of the period as a whole and not a close look at the military engagements in particular.
Really good overview
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The lecture format really works.
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The definitive account of the Crusades, in context
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The Crusades
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Prof Harl delivers again
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Outstanding
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