The First Crusade from the Byzantine Perspective | Animated History of the Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire actually played a pretty big role in all the Crusades, but especially the first one. Let's take a closer look.

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Sources:

Brownworth, Lars. Lost to the West: the Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization. Crown Publishers, 2010.

Frankopan, Peter. “The View from the East. Byzantine Accounts of the First Crusade.” History Today, vol. 62, no. 9, History Today Ltd., Sept. 2012, pp. 38–45.

Herrin, Judith. Byzantium: the Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. Princeton University Press, 2009.

Lilie, Ralph-Johannes. Byzantium and the Crusader States, 1096-1204. Clarendon, 1993.

Stouraitis, Ioannis. (2011). Jihād and Crusade: Byzantine positions towards the notions of “holy war.” Byzantina Symmeikta, 21(1), 11–63.

Tanase, Raul C. "Byzantine Diplomatic Strategies During The Period of the First Four Crusades." Research and Science Today, no. 2, 2014, pp. 223-230.


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[HistoryHouseProductions]

A few announcements:
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2. YouTube is getting rid of the polling feature on videos, so I can't do quizzes anymore :(
3. Sorry this took so long. I've had finals and stuff and ya boi wants to do well in college

[aleksandarvil]

Byzantine Empire: **exists in 1071**

Seljuk Turks: _"Prepare For Trouble."_
Normans in Italy and Sicily: _"And Make It Double"_

Byzantine Empire: *(SWEATS PROFUSELY)*

[CivilWarWeekByWeek]

Byzantine Empire: Man, I sure hope these religious fanatics don't attack us.
Crusaders: Just wait till the 4th one.

[ahmedhasankhan]

Nobody:
the auto generated captions when he said seljuk turks
"Sell yogourts"

[aleksandarvil]

Vasil II The Bulgar-Slayer: *CHAD*

His heirs and rulers after: *VIRGIN SIMPS*

[zimou]

Alexios : Does something
History House Production : Mostly .Kinda

[garabic]

Byzantines: why does everyone want to kill me. This is stupid.

[HoundofOdin]

The Pope: We must proceed cautiously with proper planni-
Peter the Hermit: *HOLD MY SACRAMENTAL WINE.*

[jona]

It's the holy hand grenade of Antioch!

[JDubs]

Byzantines in 1071, trying to find a way to revive Belisarius and sweet talk to Seljuk Turks on the border:

Seljuk Turks, on the verge of Constantinople 5 minutes later: You sly dogs, you had us monologuing.

[leogjolaj]

When you have killed like 1, 069 people burned a city or two destroyed like 100 ships pooped on the street more than it is good for you and one day the pope comes to you and says god will forgive you if you take the holy land

[thegeneraljohn]

Some Turks: *Conquer Anatolia And Threaten Constantinople.*




Crusaders: "You have forfeited your life privileges."

[aleksandarvil]

Middle East, Byzantine Asia Minor: **exist**

Seljuk Turks: *"It's Free Real Estate"*

[Jim-fidc]

Greetings from Greece. Great video on a very interesting and complicated topic. The Byzantine role during the crusades is to this day a matter of dispute amongst historians.Especially after Alexios reign the relations between the Empire and the Crusader states become even more complicated.

[collin]

F for the Byzantine Empire, and also Constantipole in the 4th crusade and 1453

[marblesjn]

Normal people: Oh look it’s the insert name here empire.
Historians: Proceeds to have a Great Schism over the name of said empire.

[Sealdrop]

i feel like this video has been written by a teen

[edgelord]

The crusades in a nutshell: *let's go on a crusade to recapture the holy land*
*its works jk it doesn't and they keep trying till it doesn't work even more*

[MesiterSode]

Someone: Hey, remember the crusades?

The Byzantine Empire: ....**PAIN**

[HikmaHistory]

I learned and laughed! Great doing this collab with you!