What book to learn about the Crusades?

Asbridge is okay

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It's more than adequate and serves the same purpose as Tyerman's aforementioned book.

If you want to read Asbridge I would first recommend The First Crusade: A New History. It's somewhere between academic and pop history, and highly readable and exciting for a layman.

>What about the Bosnians?
Wow high IQ

ignore this post, if you want to learn anything about the crusades you should absolutely not read 200 year old historical fiction lmao

Jesus Christ rules over the nations as we speak. LARPagans have no hope to cope with this fact.

>Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
>(Philippians 2:9-11)

>Jesus Christ rules over the nations as we speak

We need to dispose of this Jesus autocrat immediately!

I would agree, sir, but there's a problem with this plan. See, he happens to be immortal and omnipotent, and he loves us.

Semi-related. What book should I read to learn about the Reconquista?

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Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain
by Joseph F. O'Callaghan

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>if you don’t think that armor ain’t the tightest shit you can get out of my face

This is the reason why some people actually defend the Crusades in a nutshell.

/his/ is mostly leftypol and balkanshits from /int/ flinging turds at each other.

Rodney Stark has a few books that cover a lot of common misconceptions which were usually born from protestant propaganda.

/leftypol/ has like 8 active members, most of the shitposting is unequivocally from /pol/

Recently Finished Steven Runciman's 3 book set on the middle eastern crusades, not the most fact dense or unbiased but very readable. His pro-Byzantine perspective is clear at every turn but considering how he influenced a generation of scholars at least the first book, which covers the first crusade and its background, is worth a read. For a more modern view i would recommend Thomas Ashbridge

My absolute favorite resource for the crusades actually isn't a book but a podcast series which you can find at crusadespod.com this covers not only the middle eastern crusades but the albigensian crusade, and the baltic crusades aswell

I studied under Asbridge at uni, very intense guy, obsessed with his specialist subject in a way most professors weren't. Every girl in the class had a crush on him

this only happened because crusade memes hit the normiesphere, hence they only pop up on places like /fit/ and /pol/

The Crusades did not end in a victory for the Christians. This is not a biased statement, this is a fact.

>Though seriously I have no idea why the modern right has latched onto the crusades.
Because they haven't, if you unironically think that the "modern right" considers themselves comparable to "ye olde" crusaders, you should kill yourself.
>Centuries of Christians getting BTFO by a more sophisticated Muslim culture
Oh, so you're just shitposting, good to know.

That would depend on what Crusades we're talking about, if we're talking about purely the Middle East, then that is correct, even counting the fact that the crusader states lasted for some time.

>Alt-right figurehead retards like Faith Goldy
still larp as crusaders, though.
>I don't use Twitter or Reddit, but presumably their mouth-breathing followers still think it's epic.
I want you to go to /pol/ right now and start a thread about her, and then look at the results.
Nobody takes her seriously, least of all her LARPing.

>the "modern right" considers themselves comparable to "ye olde" crusaders
This comparison is constantly made eg:
washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/06/06/islamophobes-want-to-recreate-the-crusades-but-they-dont-understand-them-at-all/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.45945826fd1a
Which bit do you think is shitposting? That the Christians got BTFO, or that the 11th century Islamic world was more sophisticated than the Christian?

>WaPo
This is the same outlet that outed PewDiePie as a National Socialist sympathizer.
The only worse source you could've picked was Buzzfeed.

This. JR Smith is assigned in most university classes on the crusades. Pic related also gives an interesting perspective

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The northern crusades and spanish crusades were pretty successful

see>or that the 11th century Islamic world was more sophisticated than the Christian?
I disagree with calling them sophisticated.
If you want to argue that they were sophisticated in comparison to Middle Age Christians, then sure.

The Alexiad is a first hand account of the first crusade, written by a woman no less. It's a pretty good read.

Pretty weak dude, though I'll let you score a point for not using the brackets meme. What is the acceptable newspaper of record?
>If you want to argue that they were sophisticated in comparison to Middle Age Christians
Exactly what was stated in the original post.

>Pretty weak dude, though I'll let you score a point for not using the brackets meme.
Thanks for admitting that you have no defense against their awful record of reporting.
>What is the acceptable newspaper of record?
For reporting the goings on of a political wing?
No one, especially not those on the opposite end.
The most you'll see out of the MSM at this point is pure propaganda, and "alt-news" is even worse.
At best you'll get half truths that you'll need to try and glean from between the propaganda, but even then that's shaky at best, and usually terrible.

>>If you want to argue that they were sophisticated in comparison to Middle Age Christians
>Exactly what was stated in the original post.
I should've added "go ahead" to the end of that sentence, I meant "we can argue about it".

>For reporting the goings on of a political wing?
>No one
Then why should I believe you when you say the WaPo has awful reporting? Maybe it tells the truth about the modern right and you are full of shit? And how can you possibly say the modern right has not latched onto the crusades when you admit it is impossible to get reliable information about any political issue from any source?

>Then why should I believe you when you say the WaPo has awful reporting?
Because I'm not some faggot doing it for money, and I don't think I'm doing it for ideological reasons, unless thinking reporting that making Nazi jokes makes you one is retarded is somehow ideologically motivated.
>Maybe it tells the truth about the modern right and you are full of shit?
If you unironically think that trusting a website that will report that making jokes about Nazis makes you a Nazi, then I'm done talking with you.
>And how can you possibly say the modern right has not latched onto the crusades when you admit it is impossible to get reliable information about any political issue from any source?
I never said it was impossible to gather information, I said trusting large news networks to accurately report shit without injecting their ideologically convictions into, and thus distorting the Truth™ is retarded.

What's wrong with Runciman, aside from being a Byzaboo?

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>third edition
I'll wait for the fourth, thanks. I heard it has some much needed revisions.

t. venetian

t. has never been on /his/. you’d fit right in there you underaged faggot

>Runciman
paedo
is that a problem or not for you?

I recently got the Oxford history of the crusades, are they Yea Forums approved?

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How does him being a nonce affect the quality of his books?

Why do you care about what a Mongolian pasta making forum has to say?

Medieval II Total War
Crusader Kings 2
Stronghold Crusader

Let's face it, it's where 90% of us get our historical info. Books is hard

Because some people here have decent opinions

Best start in CK2 is the 1099 bookmark as Bohemond of Antioch.

I would highly recommend this book.

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