(Program 10260) What were the Crusades really about? Why did the first son's of Europe risk their legacies and lives, often losing both, to enter a battle near certain of defeat? Many historians have been trying to set the record straight on the Crusades for decades. And yet the myth prevails - they were a series of holy wars perpetuated by power-hungry popes and fought by religious fanatics. But, serious scholarship by mainstream scholars tells a very different tale. Program Guest: Stephen Gabriel