Emotions and the Crusades

Emotions do change overtime. Some emotions are unrecognizable to day. Even other cultures now have some emotions that westerners wouldn't conize. There's a german emotion called eco, which is often translated as disgust. And most cultures have something like that. So the story you tell about the crusades, which we all learned about in school, ad and how emotions played a role in that, is really interesting. Why did people go on the crusades? For the longest time, nobody had any idea. It was the idea it was a religious pilgrimage. But one of the drivig forces behind the crusades,. bizarre as it sounds, was love. The whole process was

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