[geeks] Vista is a job creator...

[Mike Meredith]

Ouch, you've tickled my historical nerve ...

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:44:13 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 @ 20:12 -0500, Lionel Peterson said:
> > Yea, but there was no real pay (they volunteered...)
> 
> Um, no.  A lot of them were paid, many were hired mercenaries, and
> there was quite a lot of looting going on.

There were some who went for pay that doesn't go 'clink' ... after all
many crusaders were from families that were relatively wealthy for the
time. 

However they were paid, and in a coin that had rather more importance to
the wealthy of the time ... Church indulgences. Crusaders were typically
(always?) forgiven all sins if they completed the crusade.

Volunteered ... hmm. Well some did, but I wonder how much choice certain
feudal vassals had if their lord decided to go and was determined to go
in force.