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Hello in 1095 Pope urban the second launched the first crusade and by the end of the 11th century an army of Frank's had driven

What they call the infidel Arab out of Jerusalem the crusader's held the city for over 80 years until salad in saltine of Egypt and Syria

seized it back in 1187

The muslim world celebrated as the Christian world shuddered and Pope Gregor the 8th issued a papal ball for the restoring of

The Holy City to Christian rule the kings of Europe

Clamant for the honor to take up the challenge however the third crusade didn't get off to a very promising start

The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa set off at the head of the greatest crusader army ever assembled

But drowned while crossing a stream in Armenia this left Philip of France and ultimately

Richard of England to take on salad and supremacy in the Middle East

What happened in that famous encounter how did the names of salad in and Richard the Lionheart come to bear such a weight of

Reputation across the centuries and were the crusades racial imperial or religious wars and was chivalry part of the equation

With me to discuss the third crusade is Jonathan Riley Smith and Dixie professor of ecclesiastical history at Cambridge University

An author of many books on the crusades also here is Carol Hillenbrand

Professor of Islamic history at the University of Edinburgh and author of the crusades islamic perspectives and we're waiting for

Tariq Ali the novelist and prayer at playwright author of a novel the book of Saladin his stuck in a traffic jam

Jonathan Riley Smith Richard arrived in the holy land in June 1191 by ship

He landed at the head of a crusader fleet. What was the political situation?

He found the what sort of army did he had what was the setup?

Well

Really the it was a consequence of Saladin's failure because Saladin had

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