User talk:Cupbearer

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Shocking...
I have left a comment in regards to your recent post on the First Crusade talk page (!Mi luchador nombre es amoladora de la carne y traigo el dolor! 03:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC))

Hi Cupbearer,

In an edit on lake monster talk on the 13th Sept you made a number of comments you were going to provide references for...Please could we have them please? thanks Tullimonstrum 12:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

"Non-combatants" of Jerusalem
A while ago, you posted a comment about how Jerusalem was emptied of all non-combatants prior to the Crusader siege. Well, I've recently corresponded with Prof. Thomas F. Madden, an authority on the Crusades, and this is what he wrote me in an email regarding the 'non-combatants' of Jerusalem:


 * "'Since it was generally assumed that the crusaders could not take Jerusalem before relief forces arrived from Egypt, one would assume that non-combatants remained in the city. The best treatment of the massacre of 1099 is Benjamin Z. Kedar. 'The Jerusalem Massacre of July 1099 in the Western Historiography of the Crusades.' Crusades 3 (2004): 15-75. It is a very in-depth study of the event.'"

I will purchase this book and update the individual Siege of Jerusalem page. (Ghostexorcist 00:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC))