About this episode

This episode explores the First Crusade and its significance in establishing the crusading movement.

Welcome to Echoes of Empires, my new podcast which is the successor to the Fall of the Roman Empire. In this episode, I want to look at the First Crusade. This crusade was quite different from all the others. Not only did it establish and define the entire crusading movement, but it was also probably the largest military expedition put together in Europe since the days of the Roman Empire. Over 100,000 people, a large proportion of whom were knights and foot soldiers, marched east to gi...

People in this episode

Host: Nick Holmes

Topics covered

• First Crusade
• Byzantium
• military expeditions
• crusading movement
• European history

Keywords

• First Crusade
• Byzantium
• military expedition
• crusading movement
• European history

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Byzantium, Europe

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