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In the 12th-century manuscript, Hortus Deliciarum, there is an illustration of Hell that contains a cauldron seemingly labeled "armisti milites" which contains soldiers. Is there more context as to how a Alsatian nun could have made this while France was about to engage in the Third Crusade?

by /u/com2420 in /r/AskHistorians

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