EP2 Faith Greed or Something Else

In November 1095, Pope Urban the Second stood in a frostbitten field in southern France and delivered a speech so incendiary it sent hundreds of thousands of people marching toward a city most of them had never seen — across terrain most of them could not name — against enemies most of them did not understand.

This is the story of the Council of Clermont. Of the chant that erupted from the crowd: Deus Vult — God wills it. Of Peter the Hermit, the filthy, charismatic preacher who accidentally assembled a catastrophe. Of the Rhineland Pogroms, the first atrocity of the crusading movement — committed before a single crusader had left Europe. And of the men who really answered the call, and why — because faith, land hunger, adventure, and social pressure are not as easy to separate as we might like.

Episode 2 of The Crusades.

Видео EP2 Faith Greed or Something Else канала World in Ages