DSK wrote:


I think ya got that one backwards. The Moors overran Spain in the early
700s and battled Charlemagne's grandfather at Tours in 732. By the time
the Carolingian Renaissance was under way, Charlemagne was fighting them
south of the Pyrenees. The Crusades didn't start until more than three
hundred years later, when Pope Urban cried out against the infidel, a
classic political red herring, and the crowd roared "Deus Le Volt"
(trans: the batteries in my Walkman are dead)

Thanks Doug, my knowledge of history in that area leaves something to be desired.

Cheers
Marty