First Crusade
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major reference
- In Crusades: The First Crusade and the establishment of the Latin states
Although still backward when compared with the other civilizations of the Mediterranean basin, western Europe had become a significant power by the end of the 11th century. It was composed of several kingdoms…
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history of Germany
- In Germany: Henry V
…Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade in 1095, Henry IV, cut off and surrounded by enemies, was living obscurely in a corner of northern Italy. The Holy See, by its great appeal to the militant lay nobility of western Europe, thus won the initiative over the empire. At this…
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impact of eschatology and millenialism
- In eschatology: Medieval and Reformation millennialism
The First Crusade revived the popular enthusiasm for both the peace and pilgrimage movements of 1033 in new and more aggressive forms: from peace in Christendom to war against the infidel, from penitential pilgrimage to armed Crusade. Peter the Hermit, whose miracles aroused much popular adulation,…
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Peter Bartholomew
- In Peter Bartholomew
…who galvanized soldiers during the First Crusade before ultimately being discredited.
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