<a href="https://rss.com/podcasts/the-sleepkeeper/voicemail">Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.</a>In 1096, thousands of households across France were getting ready for someone to leave. Land was pledged, silver counted, crosses sewn onto cloaks, harvests brought in, and keys passed into different hands.You don't need to follow any of them onto the road. If you fall asleep somewhere among the abbeys, tally sticks and newly shod horses, the evening has done what it came to do.· · ·Tonight: we stay in medieval France during the months before the First Crusade, while ordinary households prepare for an extraordinary journey. Knights borrow silver from monasteries, farmers sell oxen, smiths fit iron to staffs and horses, and families work out who will remain behind to manage the land. Around them, the harvest still comes in, bread is baked from the new grain, monastery lamps are filled with oil, and life continues one small arrangement at a time.· · ·If these long evenings have become part of how you end your day, follow the show so the next one finds you. A rating or a few words, whenever you happen to leave them, is how the next tired person finds their way here too.Narration on this channel is AI-assisted. The research, writing, and shaping of each evening are done by hand.Sleep well, friend.· · ·#SleepStory #HistoryForSleep #MedievalHistory #FirstCrusade #MedievalFrance #BedtimeStoryForAdults #FallAsleepToHistory #TheSleepkeeper

The Year Before the First Crusade | Sleep Story

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