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Middle Ages 5: The Crusades -- Why Did They Happen?

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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A Brief History of Christian Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage was a huge part of mediaeval life. There were some professional pilgrims, people who made it their careers to travel around the world and see the christian world in this way. A marjorie kemp is an example of a mediaevala woman who was one of these kind of professional pilgrims. And she basically wrote a guide book, much like a modern day a travel book,. explaining what the good sights are and where to go if you want to see different sorts of places or get healing power for different kinds of illnesses.

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