History of the Outremer

The siege of Antioch gets underway.

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tl;dl I'm alive. New episode next week. Sorry for the delay!

tl;dl No episodes during October :/

I'll be back in November with the siege of Antioch and the founding of the county of Edessa.

The army of the cross surrounds Antioch as summer comes to an end.

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While the bulk of the army heads north, two contingents head through the Cilician Gates and into the lowlands, where they'll begin to insert themselves in the complicated morass of Armenian statelets.

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The languages of the army! How did Latin become the Romance languages? What was going on with the Germanic languages, Breton, Greek, and Armenian?

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The army of the cross sets off across Anatolia, but Kılıç Arslan is out there, waiting.

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Kılıç Arslan kinda forgot about the crusaders, but they didn't forget about him or the city of Nicaea.

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We dive into the social structure of the crusading army in June of 1097 at the outset of the Siege of Nicaea. Knights, the juventus, the clergy, and even (gasp) women!

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A recap of the start of the first crusade, from the Council of Piacenza in 1094 to the beginning of the siege of Nicaea in 1097. And some questions!

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