What Was A "Crusade"?
'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages - Een podcast door Richard Abels
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Send us a textIn this episode Ellen and Richard talk about what a "crusade" was in the Middle Ages. Richard explains what modern historians mean by the term "crusade"--and why there is so little agreement. He also offers a response to a question posed by Nicholas Morton in the previous episode: How did the medieval Church reconcile its doctrine of love of enemy and its pacifistic underpinnings with papal sponsorship of crusades?Recommended reading:Western Historiography of the Crusades R...
