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Middle Ages 3: the High Middle Ages

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Crusading in the Baltic Region

crusading as an ideal allowed a kind of escape valve where people take up the cross, and they coulda use their skills. A still, there was this psychological tension between the warrior impulses and the pacifist impulses within european society. So crusading becomes, in this way, a sort of mental and political and economic fixture of high mediaeval life.

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