What I learned from this film is that Jerusalem should belong to no one, and if that proves impractical we should nuke it. Then everyone would get along splendidly. Anyway, bearing in mind it's like four or five years since I did any mediaeval history:

( oddly enough not about pirates )

From a book written in 1918:

"The Saxons were slow and difficult to move [...] did not mind fighting, if their crops were in and they had nothing else to do, and it was difficult to keep them together as an army, unless the call for their services was very urgent. They did not trouble very much about their Church, or church-buildingm thought very ( Read more... )