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What books do you recommend to learn more about the crusades and knights templar?

>> No.22216400

>>22216395
Anything by Jonathan-Riley Smith and Christopher Tyerman.

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>>22216395
Harold Lamb's Iron Men and Saints for the most fun read.

>> No.22216445

>>22216395
I'd like a Crusades book that depicts the crusaders as the indisputable good guys.

>> No.22216464

>>22216445
Kek

>> No.22216529

>>22216445
William of Tyre's history

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Read the fictionalized version.

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>>22216395
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

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Thomas Madden - A Concise History of the Crusades
Eric Christiansen - The Northern Crusades
Pic related if you want more.

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>> No.22219574

>>22218283
If I recall correctly, "Tragedy of the Templars" is relatively based for a normie book you can find at English Heritage gift shops, gives a sympathetic and positive view of the crusader military orders and contains multiple extracts from one of Saladin's historians waxing lyrical about raping Christian women.

>> No.22219653

>>22216395
Steven runciman