The Siege of Jerusalem in 1099AD

What Did They Eat: The Crusaders

Food in the land of milk and honey

A Renaissance Writer
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8 min readSep 3, 2020

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There is perhaps no historical period that has been so radically re-evaluated in the last few decades as the Crusades. While the Crusades predominantly took place in the late 11th and 12th centuries, the crusading period lasted all the way up until the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. The majority of the later crusades were very limited in…

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A Renaissance Writer
Exploring History

I love all things Italian Renaissance, cooking and writing. I can often be found reading, drinking espresso and working on too many things at once