The Crusades

581.084 - 615.089 Nathan W. Bingham

eschatological significance to recapture the holy city and so in response to the preaching particularly of Pope Urban II right at the end of the ten hundreds about 1095 suddenly there burst out this energy and this passion to travel and to recapture Jerusalem for the Christians and there is a kind of Mystery in history. I think we saw it. We talked very briefly about the rise of Islam.