HBH 13: The Dumbest Things Ever: The People's Crusade

<p>Today we embark down a very ignoble road and consider a few of the most dismal failures in history. </p> <p>We begin with a big one -- something that failed spectacularly, at a very high cost, creating misery and infamy in its wake: The People's Crusade of 1095-6!</p> <p>Index of this episode, in case you want to skip to the juicy parts:</p> <p>0:00      Intro: The Three Poisons</p> <p>5:20     Why and When the Crusades? Intro to Crusading, Pilgrims; The Houses of Abbas, Fatimids, and Seljuks; Pope Urban II and Alexius I Komnenos.</p> <p>25:57     The Council of Clermont and Urban's Call to Arms</p> <p>30:31     Peter the Hermit Inflames the Yokels</p> <p>33:48     What was the People's Crusade?</p> <p>34:20     Walter sans Avoir Sets Off for Glory</p> <p>37:32     The Vicious Little Count and His Holy Goose Crusaders</p> <p>46:15      Peter the Hermit Storms Anatolia</p> <p>56:09     Cost:Benefit Analysis of the People's Crusade, or What Does it Take to Be One of the Dumbest Things in History?</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>