The Crusades: An Interview with Dan Jones, Part 2
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Here's the rest of our conversation with historian and bestselling author Dan Jones. In Part 1, which you should absolutely listen to if you haven't already, we covered the Crusades in general; this time out, we discuss some of Dan's favorite crusaders, the most fascinating figures from four centuries of holy war.
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| 0:06.2 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:18.0 | From Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History. |
| 0:20.9 | As always, I'm Patrick Weiman. |
| 0:22.6 | Thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:24.2 | So we've got a great guest here for you today. |
| 0:26.8 | We had the pleasure of talking to him a few weeks ago about his brand new book, which |
| 0:30.5 | is called Crusaders, the epic history of the wars for the Holy Land, which I highly |
| 0:35.0 | recommend that you read. |
| 0:36.6 | He is a multiple time bestselling author, a television presenter, and somebody that we |
| 0:40.7 | are very lucky to chat with once again, Dan Jones. |
| 0:43.6 | Thanks so much for joining me. |
| 0:45.3 | Thanks for having me back. |
| 0:46.9 | So last time we talked about kind of the general shape of the book about why the Crusades |
| 0:51.5 | are important, about why they're worth talking about today, and the way that you approach |
| 0:56.2 | the topic. |
| 0:57.2 | Today, we're going to focus in on the real core of the book, which is Crusaders, as the |
| 1:03.3 | title implies, not the Crusades, but the Crusaders. |
| 1:06.3 | So this is the thing that stood out to me the most about it. |
| 1:08.6 | You picked out a bunch of really fascinating people, and they're not the people that everyone's |
| 1:13.3 | heard of with regard to the Crusades. |
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