ISBN: 9781230433165

Paperback, [PU: Theclassics.Us], This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from… Meer...

Paperback, [PU: Theclassics.Us], This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1759 edition. Excerpt: ... the pilgrimages of Christians and Mahometans: the latter went to visit the mosque; and the former the holy sepulchre. They all paid a small acknowledgment to the Turkish emir, who resided in the town, and to a sew Imans who subsisted by the curiosity of pilgrims. 00&0(r)0(r)*000 CHAP. XLIV. Of the first Crusade to the taking of Jerusalem. SUCH was the state of Asia Minor, when a pilgrim of Amiens raised up the crufades: he had then no other name besides Coucoupetre, ot Cucupietre, as we are told by the daughter of the emperor Comnenus, who faw this hermit at Constantinople; but he is known to us by the" name of Peter the- Hermit. However, this Pb- card, who had all the obstinacy of his country- men, was so exasperated at the exactions which he had sufsered at Jerufalem, and talked of them at his.return to Rome in such pathetic terms and in such lively colours, that Urban II. thouoht him a proper person to second the grand design the popes had for a long time formed of arming Christianity against Mahometism: he therefore sent Peter from province to province, to com- municate, by the force of his strong imagination, the warmth of his sentiments, and to- sow the seeds of enthusiasm. Urban II. at last held a council in the open sields near Placentia, at. which were present* a 1094 Q- 6 bove boye thirty thoufand seculars, besides ecclesiastics. There they proposed the manner of avenging the Christian cause. Alexius Comnenus, the Grecian emperor, and father of that princess who wrote the history of her times, sent ambasfadors to this council, to demand some assistance against the Mussulmen; but he had no room to expect it, either from the pope or the Italians. The Normans had then taken Naples and Sicily from..<

ISBN: 9781230433165

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2013, ISBN: 9781230433165

Theclassics.Us, Taschenbuch, Publiziert: 2013-09-12T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: black & white illustrations, 0.46 kg, Kategorien, Bücher, Theclassics.Us, 2013

2013, ISBN: 9781230433165

Theclassics.Us, Taschenbuch, Publiziert: 2013-09-12T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: black & white illustrations, 0.46 kg, Kategorien, Bücher, Theclassics.Us, 2013