Noo is noo come. Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy

Podcast brought to you with the support of the Kings College

London Philosophy Department and the LMU in Munich online at

www history of philosophy dot net. This episode will be an unusual and I hope you'll agree

exciting one. As you know I'm currently looking at medieval philosophy on the

podcast and today I'll be interviewing three other podcasters who have also covered the medieval era in their historical podcast series.

Sharon Easta of the History of the Crusades Podcast, Robin Pearson of the History of Bizantium Podcast, and and

Jamey Jeffers of the History of the British History Podcast.

And my first guest is Sharon Eastau, who is the host of the History of the

Crusade's podcast podcast which recently completed looking

at the entire history of the Crusades.

Hi Sharon, thanks for being interviewed.

Hi Peter.

It's great to have you on.

I've listened to your whole series. It is great and I encourage people to listen to it as well.

Oh, thank you. Well, it was fun to do and I'm a bit sad it's over really.

I'm sad it's over too, but you're maybe moving on to other topics, right?

I may will be, so you have to watch this space. So you've actually covered the Crusades. Maybe you can explain what that means. I mean, I guess everyone's heard of the Crusades.

So Latin Christians going off to the Holy Land to try to reconquer Jerusalem and other territory.

But how did you conceive of the project like where are the boundaries of the project for you?

I basically wanted to focus on the Crusades in the medieval era focusing on the Middle East.

I actually read an article this morning strangely that from one of the historians that

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