The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors - Dan Jones Audiobook

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  Knightmare666
  February 27th, 2022
  

  

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  February 27th, 2022
  

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  February 27th, 2022
  

  

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  rawy
  February 28th, 2022
  

  After the fall of Jerusalem, the massacre that followed, as described by Encyclopedia Britannica, is presented hereunder,

  ‘So terrible, it is said was the carnage which followed that the horses of the Crusaders who rode up to the mosque of Omar were knee-deep in the stream of blood. Infants were seized by their feet and dashed against the walls or whirled over the battlements, while the Jews were all burnt alive in the synagogue.

  On the next day, the horrors of that which had preceded it were deliberately repeated on a larger scale. Tancred had given a guarantee of safety to 300 captives. In spite of his indignant protest, these were all brought out and killed; and a massacre followed in which the bodies of men, women, and children were hacked and hewn until their fragments lay tossed together in heaps. The work of slaughter ended; the streets of the city were washed by Saracen prisoners.
  ———-
  One Muslim traveler, venturing far from his native Spain, had found
  Jerusalem in the years shortly before the First Crusade to be an intellectual
  melting pot “teeming with scholars.” His account details the competing schools
  of Islamic law and the famous intellectuals who gathered to debate around the
  central mosque: “We entered the Holy Land and reached the Aqsa mosque. The
  full moon of knowledge shone for me and I was illuminated by it for more than
  three years.”39 The city, he adds, provided an ideal meeting place for experts in
  all three of the great monotheistic faiths.
  That all disappeared in the flash of a sword. The city’s scholarly class was
  killed wholesale, along with much of the rest of the populace. Raymond of
  Aguilers, chaplain to Raymond of Saint-Gilles, who led the crusaders of
  southern France, records the carnage: “Piles of heads, hands, and feet were to be
  seen in the streets of the city. It was necessary to pick one’s way over the bodies
  of men and horses. But these were small matters compared with what happened
  in the Temple of Solomon. What happened there? If I tell the truth, you would
  not believe it. Suffice to say that, in the Temple and Porch of Solomon, men rode
  in blood up to their knees and bridle reins.

  The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors - Dan Jones
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  Wemdu
  February 28th, 2022
  

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  caesar963
  March 2nd, 2022
  

  

  Oy, please do read the histories. Those few paras are, by turns, the most shockingly preposterous screed, and then we have the ludicrously romanticised puffery, that it is possible to present in relation to this subject. The infamously ridiculous, & oft-quoted (esp. on extremist sites & venues, tbh) account concerning “the horses…who rode up to the mosque were knee-deep in the stream of blood,” was silly polemical hyperbole even when it was written - how much more so now.

  Knowledge of the topography of Jerusalem renders this dangerous nonsense. A staggeringly powerful stream of blood, in volume so great that it is flowing down a Jerusalem hill, and is even able (mindless ordure, this) to continuously reach the knees of warhorses. Right. It’s been calculated that millions would’ve had to have been slaughtered up on that hill - anywhere at all, in fact - to achieve this horrific, impossible feat.

  However, that’s really only the beginning. Because, as it goes on to relate, this was merely the rather mild first day of the capture. It was on a completely different, unimaginable scale the next day.

  On a properly historiographical note, atrocities committed against inhabitants of cities taken by storm following a siege were indeed (depressingly) standard in historical warfare, by both Christians & Muslims. The crusaders had already done so at Antioch, & Fatimids (of the Caliphate) had done so themselves at Taormina, at Rometta, & at Tyre. If any are tempted to smugly wag their supercilious fingers at those terrible people of the past, I have but one proviso: take one look at the actual 20th century dark age. Take a look at what is going on right now in the East. And do try not to be sick.

  On the “Utopian” aspect: in the Caliphates, the practice of wearing special clothing or markings to distinguish Jews & Christians (dhimmis) - in order to stigmatise subject populations - was introduced in the Umayyad Caliphate by Caliph Umar II in the early 8th c. The practice was revived and reinforced by the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil (847–861), subsequently remaining in force for centuries. This also occurred in Europe at various times. A document from 1121 describes the decrees issued in Baghdad:

  “Two yellow badges [are to be displayed], one on the headgear and one on the neck. Furthermore, each Jew must hang round his neck a piece of lead with the word Dhimmi on it. He also has to wear a belt round his waist. The women have to wear one red and one black shoe and have a small bell on their necks or shoes.”
  Christians & Jews were also forced to wear yellow belts.

  As I said, there are truly great & genuinely accurate histories of this profoundly fascinating period, now known as the Crusades; and of the disturbing events in the Holy Land prior to the First Crusade. Read Riley-Smith, Tyerman, Madden, Asbridge et al. No silly, asinine, romanticised accounts, or fatuous exaggeration allowed!

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  Architectect
  July 25th, 2022
  

  Thanks ***

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  integspec
  October 13th, 2023
  

  Thank you! :)

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  mangoa
  January 15th, 2025
  

  

  Thank you

  The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors - Dan Jones

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