
Ep 65: John Hosler on Jerusalem
John Hosler, Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and author of Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace, joins the show to talk about the wars, and the peace, of medieval Jerusalem.
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Show Notes
John Hosler, Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and author of Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace, joins the show to talk about the wars, and the peace, of medieval Jerusalem.
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Times
• 01:26 Introduction
• 01:46 Why care about medieval military history?
• 07:22 What is it about Jerusalem?
• 12:45 Continuities
• 16:19 The Byzantines and the Jews
• 23:54 The Arabs arrive
• 29:42 An “evidentiary problem”
• 33:59 Three hundred years of peace
• 36:29 Causes of the First Crusade
• 40:36 The Crusaders
• 42:32 Siege and conquest
• 44:23 A Christian city
• 47:31 The Crusader States
• 49:29 The Knights Templar