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 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 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 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 Storm, A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East,

offers a multicultural narrative of that first century of Crusader history, showing

the incredible number of different peoples affected by the movement which Alexius Cominos called

into being. The Crusader Storm is available from all good booksellers now. Professor Nicholas Morton, welcome back to the podcast.

Hi, Robert, it's great to be back on the show.

It's great to have you here.

It's probably our last chance to talk about the Crusades on the history of Byzantium,

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