12th Century Context Series – Episode 3: The Crusader World

This is the last of our three episode tour of the twelfth century. This one is the eastern Mediterranean. The world that crusading built, the institutions that sustained it for a century, and the collisions that finally brought it down. And at the end, the image we're building toward all episode: Constantinople in flames, sacked by Christians under a crusading banner, in the year 1204.

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Alban Elfed by OB-LIX

Cinematic Drama Resonance by Rockot

Wish I Could be There with You by ArtSlop Flodur

Medieval Ambient by Deus Lower

Bargur by Rockot

Stellar Guardian by Deus Lower

Magic World by Serge Pavkin Music

Mystical Drift by Sonican

Cinematic Landscape by Lexin Music

Cloud of Sorrow by Katzen Tupas

The Stone Warriors by OB-LIX

Fall of the Roman Empire by White Records

Mystique by Adi Goldstein

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