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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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The Medic Pilgrimage - The Heroic Knight Errant

Pilgrims should be armed in order to defend the holy city itself, he said. He told them to take up the cross, and used this phrase from the gospels. This clearly was evoking a chivalric a heroism, she says. The idea of the heroic knight errant at this time was being increasingly celebrated.

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