HBH 13: The Dumbest Things Ever: The People's Crusade
The History of Being Human - Un pódcast de Noel Armstrong
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Today we embark down a very ignoble road and consider a few of the most dismal failures in history. We begin with a big one -- something that failed spectacularly, at a very high cost, creating misery and infamy in its wake: The People's Crusade of 1095-6! Index of this episode, in case you want to skip to the juicy parts: 0:00 Intro: The Three Poisons 5:20 Why and When the Crusades? Intro to Crusading, Pilgrims; The Houses of Abbas, Fatimids, and Seljuks; Pope Urban II and Alexius I Komnenos. 25:57 The Council of Clermont and Urban's Call to Arms 30:31 Peter the Hermit Inflames the Yokels 33:48 What was the People's Crusade? 34:20 Walter sans Avoir Sets Off for Glory 37:32 The Vicious Little Count and His Holy Goose Crusaders 46:15 Peter the Hermit Storms Anatolia 56:09 Cost:Benefit Analysis of the People's Crusade, or What Does it Take to Be One of the Dumbest Things in History? Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-being-human--5806452/support.
