I have a pretty welcome to Dance Notes history and I'm just sitting now looking at a beautiful

tithe barn. It's a gigantic barn in which a monastic community evasion would take one

tenth, that's where the word tithe derives from, one tenth of the farming producer surrounding

area to support the religious community. It was their contribution. You know, the priests

are praying for them to have a title of life and so all the rest of us can do is keep the

grain flowing in. Seems reasonable to me. Anyway, it's a gorgeous tithe barn just outside

Evesham. I'm here as I have been for the last few days making a TV show for history

it. This one is about Shakespeare. You'll learn more as we get closer to the date of release.

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of the podcast without the ads without any ads on them at all. Great stuff. This episode

of the podcast is one of our best ones from the archive. We showcase one of these every

week. This one is with Professor Charles and Phillips. It is about Saladin and the Crusades.

Saladin Saladin was the founder of the Abiod dynasty of Egypt. He was the essential Muslim

leader of the military campaigns against the Crusade estates that just been set up so recently

in the so-called Holy Land. He fought in the 12th century. He fought Richard the Lion

Heart on the battlefield. He captured Jerusalem. He carved out an empire that spanned not just

Egypt but Syria much of what we now know Saudi Arabia and Jordan and further south into

what we call Sudan and Ethiopia as well. He's all the great military figures of the Middle

Ages. He's also given his name to my favorite cast in the world which I mentioned before

this podcast. Saladin's cast, he captured this Crusader castle and it is one of the most

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