This is from one of my favourite YouTube channels. I can't swear that the host, J. Stephen Roberts, is Catholic, but in all the videos I've watched, I've never heard him say a word that was anti-Catholic.
The Crusades are a vital part of Catholic history. They are also maligned and denounced in modern academia. The fact is that they were defensive wars, attempting to take back land that had been conquered by Islam. I will be posting more material on them as well as sharing these videos, because I think it is important that we, as Catholics, be able to debunk the myths that the atheist, secular, left wing scholars and media spread.
http://www.realcrusadeshistory.com
This video is a short, to-the-point overview of how the Crusades began and their general history across the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern era. This video serves as an excellent review for students studying the Crusades, and would be good study material for a test which covers the Crusades as part of a more general history course. This video would also be excellent for presentation in a classroom setting as an introduction to the Crusades.
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