Quote Originally Posted by Griffin Robert Faulkner View Post
I think the biggest benefit of the crusades was to send all these angry, horny, pissy, and single men about 1000 miles away from trouble.. to cause trouble somewhere else. It bought peace (relatively) in EU for the next few years.
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Steve Weidenkompf The Glory of the Crusades

"Medevil historians have long known that popular culture image of the crusades has nothing at all to do with the events themselves"
Thomas Madden Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University