Welcome to the Crusades, Episode 1: Rome, 1095

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

News, History, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In lieu of a typical AP episode this week, we're releasing the first two episodes of our standalone miniseries on the First Crusade with the crew from We're Not So Different⁠⁠. Get the rest of the series here. Our journey through the First Crusade starts where the Crusaders themselves did: in western Europe with Pope Urban II and the Council of Clermont. We discuss conditions in Latin Christendom in the late 11th century, what prompted the Pope’s call for Crusade, and how it was received by European nobles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.4	Sustainability.
0:57.7	Hey, everyone, Danny here.
1:03.6	Going to talk to Derek for a little bit about this new series we have called Welcome to the Crusades,
1:07.5	the first season being, of course, on The First Crusade.
1:12.7	So Derek, we were thinking of this series for a while or at least expanding,
1:17.2	and we wanted to figure out what would be the best thing to do. And we wound up settling on the Crusades. And as a former medievalist, I'm just curious, what do you think connects the
1:22.4	Crusades to our present era? Why is it important to understand the Crusades,
1:27.8	not only to understand what was going on then,
1:30.7	but to illuminate what's going on now?
1:34.0	Yeah, I mean, I think the obvious thing is,
1:36.4	like everybody thinks we're in a clash of civilizations.
1:39.9	And it's important to highlight, A, that we've always thought we were in a clash of civilizations.
1:46.3	People have always thought this throughout history.
1:50.1	And B, we never were, actually.
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