Survey Church History Episode 9: Take Up Your Cross: The Four Major Crusades

The Crusades are as misunderstood as they are hated. Why did they occur? What motivations fueled western Christians to go fight Muslims in the Holy Land? And how did these events *almost* reunite the two halves of Christendom? We end by looking at the infamous Fourth Crusade, which crushed any hopes of Catholic and Orthodox reconciliation.