Re:A 16th-century engineer whose work almost defeated the Ot...
by nl on Monday May 29, 2017 @04:43AM
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Crowley's Empire of the Sea (mentioned elsewhere) talks about this a lot.
We talk about the knights now as though they were some kind of priests, but in reality they were pretty much ferocious pirates with a religious sanction.
We talk about the knights now as though they were some kind of priests, but in reality they were pretty much ferocious pirates with a religious sanction.