Including rules for creating characterful leaders for your army's divisions, for scouting and seizing the best terrain on the battlefield and for fighting a battle of wit and nerve against your opponent.Ī series of different types of engagement, from the classical pitched battle to more complex layouts, which can be used to play challenging battles. Brave crusading knights and their men-at-arms take on the defenders of Islam. The rules of Deus Vult allow you to recreate the flavour of medieval warfare on your tabletop, in a game that is both fun and highly tactical. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.This is the core rulebook for the Deus Vult game system. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future.
NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Neda Ulaby, NPR News.Ĭopyright © 2017 NPR. ULABY: That and to remind people that past does not have to be prologue. ULABY: And the head of the Medieval Academy of America, Lisa Fagin Davis, hopes she and her fellow scholars can reach beyond academe to those whose grasp of medieval history may be rooted in bigotry rather than facts.ĭAVIS: We want to get the real story out. And that's not something that as historians we can just let pass. PERRY: They all depend on this idea that once upon a time there was a pure white Europe building civilization in opposition to the other. ULABY: Perry monitors right-wing websites, and he says people commonly cite the Crusades' knights templar and vikings to protest the influx of Muslim refugees in Europe as well as to stir up anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic hate here. The Crusades are not the dominant event of medieval history, and the violence of the Crusades is not the only story that we can tell. There are moments in the Crusades in which religious violence was intense. There was absolutely violence and often violence framed around religion. PERRY: But there were lots of Muslims throughout Europe. ULABY: Other people, for example, like Jews. ULABY: These sentiments, says medieval scholar David Perry, are not without precedent.ĭAVID PERRY: There were people in the Middle Ages who identified themselves in opposition to Muslims and in opposition to other people.
I stand with God against the most violent false religion in the world. WILLIAM FINLAY: This is Wild Bill for America wearing the cross and shield of the New Crusaders. Reductive medieval imagery and language shows up in posts by contemporary Islamophobes.
Racists online have adopted a crusader rallying cry, deus vult. ULABY: Social media teems with homemade videos glorifying a time when heavily armored Christians fought for Europe against swarthy infidels. This fantasy not only hurts people in the present, it also distorts the past. It says the Middle Ages were complicated and diverse.ĭAVIS: (Reading) By using imagined medieval symbols or names drawn from medieval terminology, they create a fantasy of a pure white Europe that bears no relationship to reality. ULABY: The statement was signed by more than 24 organizations representing over 5,000 people. After Charlottesville, Davis and her colleagues published a statement on the Medieval Academy blog.ĭAVIS: (Reading) As scholars of the medieval world, we're disturbed by the use of a nostalgic but inaccurate myth of the Middle Ages by racist movements in the United States. Maurice, revered during the medieval period. And I suspect the gentleman carrying the shield didn't realize that. He's an African saint who carries that standard. LISA FAGIN DAVIS: There was one young man who was carrying a shield with a black spread eagle that was clearly co-opted from either the Holy Roman Empire or - there's actually a saint. ULABY: On so many levels, says Lisa Fagin Davis, the white supremacists recorded in this video have gotten history completely wrong. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: The head of the Medieval Academy of America was horrified when she saw dozens of Charlottesville demonstrators brandishing white shields with crosses that looked a lot like crusader flags. And as NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, those historians are angry.
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Professional historians have noticed this, too. If you've watched videos of white supremacist rallies and marches across the U.S., you may have noticed people dressed up as crusaders from the Middle Ages or waving banners with medieval insignias.
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