If you want a good, definitive history of the Crusades but don't necessarily want to read a 900-page doorstop, this book is a good little read. If my twenty-odd minute discussion of this set of campaigns has whetted your appetite for more, this will give you the whole story in great detail. The definitive history of the fall of Egypt to Saladin. The Collapse of the Fatimid Caliphate, the Ebb of Crusader Influence, and the Rise of Saladin. Adam Bishop, a crusade historian who fact-checked the script of this episode for me.įulton, Michael. Special thanks to my friend and colleague Dr. In this episode, I'll be discussing this lesser-known story from the history of the Crusades. Although these armies came within an ace of victory, in the end, they were outmaneuvered by the forces of Aleppo, and it would be Saladin who conquered the Fatimid Caliphate. In the 1160s, the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem made a play to conquer Egypt, assisted by the forces of the Eastern Roman Empire. Want to talk about this episode? Join the Discord: This is an excellent book that has more recent scholarship than Lewis on medieval belief in elves, and also has an excellent discussion of how medieval churchmen dealt with belief in elves. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church. And in his chapter The Longaevi, he discusses medieval belief in elves, those creatures that didn't really fit into that cosmology. This book covers the way that medieval people understood the structure of the universe, from the earth at the center all the way to the heavens that surround what we moderns call the solar system. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964. These creatures associated with glens and groves were often known as the fairies, or the elves, and they're going to be the topic of this episode. In addition to God, the devil, and the angels and demons, medieval people believed in a class of beings living just outside of sight, of creatures that you'd see only from the corner of your eye.
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