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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Crusades, but were afraid to ask

HistoryExtra podcast

HistoryExtra

History

4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In the latest of our series tackling the big questions on major historical topics, historian Rebecca Rist responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about the medieval Christian campaigns in the middle east. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

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I'm Ellie Cawthorne. In today's episode, which is the latest in our Everything You Wanted to Know but We're Too Afraid to Ask series, Professor Rebecca Rist of the University of Reading

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tackles the Crusades. Putting the questions to Rebecca is Dave Musgrove, content director on BBC History Magazine and

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History Extra.com. Welcome to the latest in our Everything You Want to Know series. Today we're

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looking at the Crusades and our expert is Professor Rebecca Rist, Professor of Medieval History

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at the University of Reading and obviously an expert on the Crusades.

1:35.3

Her books include The Papacy and Crusading in Europe, 1198 to 1245, and Popes and Jews 1095 to 1291.

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And she's written many articles on crusading, including a contribution to a panel discussion feature that we ran in BBC World History's magazine about whether the world is still living in the shadow of the crusade. You can find that on our website at history extra.com.

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Now, the format for this series for anyone who's new to it is that we've asked you,

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our readers and listeners, to send us your questions about the topic via our social media

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channels at History Extra on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. And alongside that, we've done a bit

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