It's Thanksgiving.

And before we get to the next episode, which is going to feature a lot of Anselm, of which

I'm very thankful for, but I'm also very thankful that he's not alive today.

First, on the members feed, we're talking about pilgrims and not the buckles on your

hat kind of pilgrim, but the earlier type. Here's a sample. But we're talking about pilgrimage.

And we're bringing this up in the context of the Crusades for a couple of reasons. The Crusaders

saw themselves as going on a type of pilgrimage. This was some sort of in their mind, and we'll go into this.

An armed pilgrimage.

Yeah, like a evolution of pilgrimage.

They also saw themselves as one of the narratives around why the Crusades were necessary

was to protect pilgrimage and protect pilgrims. So in order to understand

the Crusades, you really have to understand what this practice is. And I think just to understand

this period, you really have to understand pilgrimage because it was really important to the culture.

Right. So to do this topic properly, we just have to kind of go back and admit that pilgrimage

is not a medieval

practice exclusively. It's not a Christian practice exclusively. It's kind of amazing that

people, humans, kind of love the concept of traveling and going to a place in order to have

a spiritual experience. It's hard to find a culture or a time where we're not seeing evidence of some version of this

practice going on.

Right.

We'd think Stonehenge was a place that people were traveling to under, you could call it a pilgrimage.

We have burials there from people who are thousands of miles away was where they actually lived

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