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He bless you, Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy Podcast, brought to you with the support of the philosophy department at

Keynes College London and the LMU in Munich. Online at www. History of Philosophy

dot Net. Today's episode, onward Christian soldiers, just war theory.

July 13, 1099 is a date that lives in infamy.

It was on this day that the warriors of the First Crusade succeeded in their mission

of resting the Holy City of Jerusalem from the hands of the Muslims.

What followed was slaughter on an almost unimaginable scale.

Thousands of Muslims and Jews were put to the sword.

Christian sources on the massacre state that 10,000 people were killed in the temple of Solomon alone.

The slaughter was so great that our men waded in blood up to their ankles.

You might say, what else would you expect? Medieval Christian knights were hardly going to show

mercy to non-Christians. But consider another infamous date, April 12, 1204.

In this climax to the shameful sequence of events known as the Fourth Crusade, Christian warriors

who were supposed to be trying to recapture the Holy Land sacked the capital city of the Byzantine Empire.

A three day spasm of murder, rape, and destruction followed.

This greatest of the medieval Christian cities would never really recover.

Surely though the Latin Christians wouldn't do this sort of thing on their own territory.

Sadly they very much would.

Only five years later on July 22nd, 1209, the city of Bezier in southern France was sacked

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