The Crusades defined the Middle Ages and left a long legacy behind them. We chat with Dan Jones, author of the upcoming book Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Land, about why this long series of conflicts mattered so much to medieval people and why they're still important today.
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The Commercial Revolution
The Venetian Empire
The Crusades: An Interview with Dan Jones, Part 2
Why Rome Never Rose Again: An Interview with Professor Walter Scheidel
We Join Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie's Guild (And You Should, Too!)
The Rise of Printing and the Invention of News: An Interview with Professor Andrew Pettegree
The Origins and Rise of Venice
Boxing, Race, and the Gilded Age: An Interview with Professor Louis Moore
The Experience of the Italian Wars
Book Club: Summer Reading
The Italian Wars, Part 2
Walls throughout History: An Interview with Professor David Frye
The Italian Wars, Part 1
Minisode: Military Revolutions
Why Bother with the Seventeenth Century? An Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers
Condottieri: War for Profit in Renaissance Italy
Machiavelli's Laboratory: The Politics of Renaissance Italy
Classic Tides: Life in Renaissance Florence
Minisode: Banking
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