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I have a 4 year B.A. (Hon.) in History but with no particular emphasis on medieval history. As I said I've just been reading a book on The Crusades right now, and I just started one on the Black Death today. Especially with Paradox games I tend to read about the stuff I'm playing. Though I did take a seminar class on the crusades during my last year.

Most of my second post in the thread was an excerpt from Jonathan Riley-Smith's book though, as I noted.
 
Sorry for the lack of an update, I've been bashing my head against the wall trying to get Crusade war declarations by event working... unfortunately the event system for declaring war is not well documented so I'm having to figure it out by trial and error. I have made some progress and will release an update as soon as I solve the mystery :p