The Opening Of The Crusades: Pope Urban II
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The series of crusades initiated in the eleventh century brought the West
into greater contact with Byzantium and Islam. These crusades demonstrated
the expansiveness of the West during the High Middle Ages as well as the
increasing power and activism of the papacy. The first of these crusades
was ....
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.... and of princes as well.
Having arranged the matters relating to the Church, the lord pope went
forth into a certain spacious plain, for no building was large enough to
hold all the people. The pope then, with sweet and persuasive eloquence,
addressed those present in words something like the following saying: "Oh,
race of Franks, race from across the mountains, race beloved and chosen by
God, as is clear from many of your works, set apart from all other nations
by the situation of your cou ....
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