What Did the Crusaders Ever Learn from Us?

Tel Aviv Review

English - February 16, 2018 06:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratings
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This episode originally aired on Feb. 20, 2015.

Dr. Jonathan Rubin, a historian of the Medieval Levant at Tel Aviv University, specializes in the production of knowledge in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th and 13th centuries.

He talks to host Gilad Halpern about how the Crusaders' encounters with local societies - beyond the initial indignation - led to theological, economic, and scientific developments.