tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post4653189313074672626..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: What the crusades were really likeCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-34244646701726688392007-02-27T04:02:00.000-05:002007-02-27T04:02:00.000-05:00please could you delete your link to violetsaunder...please could you delete your link to violetsaunders, who no longer exists.<BR/>thanks<BR/>vsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-90093729342561779202007-02-26T20:40:00.000-05:002007-02-26T20:40:00.000-05:00Er. What I mean is that if you fight cranes, feath...Er. What I mean is that if you fight cranes, feathers get everywhere....Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-17332266557381693382007-02-26T20:39:00.000-05:002007-02-26T20:39:00.000-05:00This almost makes me miss the flash mobs of yore. ...This almost makes me miss the flash mobs of yore. Almost.JKWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965566773252227387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-49103380781216742602007-02-26T11:45:00.000-05:002007-02-26T11:45:00.000-05:00this must have been what the Crusades were likeObv...<I>this must have been what the Crusades were like</I><BR/><BR/>Obvious the combatant has read <I>Herzog Ernst,</I> a popular German chivalric narrative in which Duke Ernest and his companions encounter, and are chased away by, a Saracenized city of crane-headed people. The crane-headed folk fight with arrows and other missile weapons, making it impossible for the Christians to close with them; they're also far more technologically advanced than the Christians (Ernst luxurates in a bath with running water). And the defeat, in not being really a defeat, allows the crusaders to disavow their defeat as the result of unfair, even monstrous tactics, rather than their own failings.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-79912151347776713972007-02-26T11:19:00.000-05:002007-02-26T11:19:00.000-05:00I think that you'll find that generalising about w...I think that you'll find that generalising about what "medievalists" think of the crusades is somewhat more complex a proposal than you suggest above. I guess it depends whether you are talking about crusades, as a general concept, or "The Crusades"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-84785927963486765252007-02-26T11:02:00.000-05:002007-02-26T11:02:00.000-05:00More proof that if Americans knew what the Crusade...More proof that if Americans knew what the Crusades were, they'd be really surprised at some of their more disturbing analogies to them. <BR/><BR/>Are medievalists the only people in this country who realize that crusades are NOT a good thing? (clearly I have residual annoyance from the last time our President used the word...which may have been years ago, given that I've been in an exam-reading cocoon for a few months now...but yup, I'm still more than a little bitter...)MKHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11773335756057041042noreply@blogger.com