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@smeg

Fuck yeah. :)

I am very over the weird-ass ahistorical Templar fetishists getting to to define the narrative of who the interest group.

I acquired an interest in the medieval history of Western Europe because my country was made a Crusader state by the French in around ~1200, and they left some really awesome castles around the place.

Of course, some of the castles dated from when we had previously been governed cooperatively by the Byzantines and the Umayyad caliphate.

Anyway, cutting myself off for rambling, but history belongs to everyone, I'm digressing, and the fascists don't get to claim the awesome castles as Their Stuff either.

Continuing the tangent I've been listening to some lectures by Prof Dorsey Armstrong on the intellectual life of the middle ages and it's been fascinating.