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Amazon knows what I'm RPing 
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These are pretty good recs....
TeaMergency
gdi lmao
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It's two crusades off on the first one but the others...
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lmk if you ever want good crusades recs btw
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ᴇᴍᴀɴᴀᴛᴏʀ
: ummm yes give them to me asap 👀
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I have some good books but I'm always up for more
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two major primary sources:
Chronicles of the First Crusade (Penguin Classics)
Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics)
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I have mixed feelings on JRS as a historian, but he's very readable:
The Crusades: A History: Third Edition
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just dismiss anything he says on Templars as he's weirdly biased against them
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Ghost written by Assassins
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The First Crusade: A Brief History with Documents (B...
Rubenstein is very good - iirc he's a bit dry tho
ɴᴇᴡ ᴘᴏʟʟᴜᴛɪᴏɴ
Hattin was such a clusterfuck
ɴᴇᴡ ᴘᴏʟʟᴜᴛɪᴏɴ
/my helpful observation
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Marcus Bull is very good - iirc his prose is very nice. His books can be pricy but if you can find one at like, a second hand store it's worth it.
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: ty for the links! I will check these out
ᴇᴍᴀɴᴀᴛᴏʀ
HILARIOUSLY JRS is a member of a different order and that's why the templars are bad to him lol
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but a lot of other historians have been working to actively correct some of his, uh, biased research in that arena
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academic wankery
TeaMergency
lmfao
My Knee
That's genuinely hilarious
TeaMergency
jesus fandom wank is also too real
TeaMergency
not 'jesus' as in an exclamation, 'jesus' as in the dude
My Knee
It's true both ways
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fun fact (aka my favorite medieval fact) that one of the accusations of heresy against the templars was that they worshiped the cats that lived with them
My Knee
Who could blame them