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May 6, 2020

Mr. Michael Davies begins by looking at the historical culture leading into the Crusades. His discussion of the Crusades opens with an in-depth treatment of the causes of the First Crusade, the different and often conflicting groups who took part in it, and the surprising, providential victory that was won under very...


May 6, 2020

There were eight "official" Crusades in the Middle Ages. Mr. Michael Davies goes into detail on the remaining seven: the inconclusive second; hopeful but ultimately problematic third; disastrous fourth, which involved the excommunication of the crusading army and sack of Constantinople; and the fundamentally unsuccessful...


May 6, 2020

Mr. Davies describes the creation of the Crusading Orders. He explains how they are one of the most extraordinary developments of the Crusading Movement. The Crusading Order’s are the Knights of the Temple and of the Hospital, the Teutonic Knights, and the many similar organizations coming out of Spain. Mr. Davies...


May 6, 2020

Mr. Davies discusses the little known sect from the 1200’s called the Catharists. Pope Innocent III was convinced that Crusades had to be called against other enemies of the Faith than the Moslems. The most dangerous enemies of Catholicism in the early 1200s were the Catharists, a Manichean Gnostic sect powerful...


May 6, 2020

Michael Davies discusses the defense of Malta. The Knights of the Hospital ultimately were forced by the Ottoman Turkish advance to move to Malta. It is from this move that their present name, the Knights of Malta, arises. The Knights, in one of the most glorious pages of their history, fought off a horrific Ottoman...