Episode 352 - Crusader Storm with Nicholas Morton
The History of Byzantium

Episode 352 - Crusader Storm with Nicholas Morton

B2Upper-intermediateJune 3, 202658 min

This is our last chance to talk about the Crusades on this podcast. So I put listener questions to Dr Nicholas Morton. Dr Morton is Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. His research focuses on the history of the Crusades and the Medieval Middle East between the tenth and the fourteenth centuries. He has written four other books on Crusading and the Crusader states as well as The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East. His new book The Crusader S...

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Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium, episode 352 Crusader Storm with Nicholas Morton. Professor Nicholas Morton, one of our favourite guests on the show, has written a new history of the Crusades. Since this is our last chance to talk crusading on this podcast, I asked

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for listener questions to put to Professor Morton. So thank you for the dozens of questions that came in. Of course, there were lots about Byzantium, but since we have covered much of that ground, I decided to focus instead on all the questions that I have never answered. Questions about life on the ground in Ultramir. And Professor Morton gives really

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good thorough answers to all of these. Dr Morton is Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global History at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. His research focuses on the history of the Crusades and the medieval Middle East between the 10th and 14th centuries. He's written four other books on

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