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The Latin term used for the Children’s Crusade is peregrinatio puerorum, but “puer” in Latin also means “servant,” given the lack of good sources talking about child crusaders, is it possible that the Children’s Crusade was really the Servant’s Crusade?

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Steven Runciman’s A History of the Crusades posits that the crusades were an extension of the barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire, what do other historians say about this?

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Boethius the great philosopher and Cassiodorus the great historian were both Roman Senators who lived in the late 5th and 6th centuries, but what did it even mean to be a Roman Senator in late antiquity, when the Roman Empire didn’t even exist in the West?

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Were there a particular set of cultural, political, economic or demographic conditions that could be correlated with the success of the Protestant Reformation? Ie, what was the sort of place that became Protestant in 16th/17th century Europe and what was the sort of place that remained Catholic?

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The Latin term used for the Children’s Crusade is peregrinatio puerorum, but “puer” in Latin also means “servant,” given the lack of good sources talking about child crusaders, is it possible that the Children’s Crusade was really the Servant’s Crusade?	1335
Steven Runciman’s A History of the Crusades posits that the crusades were an extension of the barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire, what do other historians say about this?	29
Boethius the great philosopher and Cassiodorus the great historian were both Roman Senators who lived in the late 5th and 6th centuries, but what did it even mean to be a Roman Senator in late antiquity, when the Roman Empire didn’t even exist in the West?	11
Were there a particular set of cultural, political, economic or demographic conditions that could be correlated with the success of the Protestant Reformation? Ie, what was the sort of place that became Protestant in 16th/17th century Europe and what was the sort of place that remained Catholic?	5