Crusades
Causes of weakness in the kingdom of Jerusalem 111 (1) Bad faith in dealing with the Moslem 111 (2) Disregard of rights of property 111 (3) Lax military discipline 111 (4) Total lack of statesmanship 111 (5) General immorality 112 (6) Desultory character of the crusades 112 (7...
Causes of weakness in the kingdom of Jerusalem 111 (1) Bad faith in dealing with the Moslem 111 (2) Disregard of rights of property 111 (3) Lax military discipline 111 (4) Total...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER X.11. CHAPTER XI.12. CHAPTER XII.13. CHAPTER XIII.14. CHAPTER XIV.15. CHAPTER XV.16. CHAPTER I.The Crusades were a series of wars, waged by men who wore on their garments the badge of the Cross as a pledge binding them to rescue the Holy Land and the Sepulchre of Christ f...
17. CHAPTER II.The Pope is the bishop of Rome, and the traditions of the papacy delight in recalling the humble origin of his vast monarchy, at once spiritual and temporal, ecclesiastical and...
18. CHAPTER III.Little more than half the time allowed for the gathering of the crusaders had passed away, when a crowd of some sixty thousand men and women, neither caring nor thinking about t...
19. CHAPTER IV.The reign of Godfrey fell short by five days even of the brief period of a single year; but it sufficed not only for the discomfiture of the Egyptian sultan, but for the foundat...
20. CHAPTER V.What Peter the Hermit had been for the first crusade, that St. Bernard was for the second; and on Peter, Bernard looked down with undisguised contempt. The failure of that first...
21. CHAPTER VI.The second crusade not only failed in its purpose: it did nothing towards the maintenance of the waning ascendency of the Latins. Even victories brought with them no solid resul...
22. CHAPTER VII.A halo of false glory surrounds the third crusade from the associations which connect it with the lion-hearted king of England. The exploits of Richard I. have stirred to enthus...
23. CHAPTER VIII.The story of the fourth crusade is soon told. It was an effort prompted by the policy of a pope to whom the diversion of forces which the German emperor might turn against himse...
24. CHAPTER IX.At its outset, if not in its results, the fifth crusade exhibits something like a return to the spirit of the age which gave so vast a force to the preaching of the hermit Peter...
25. CHAPTER X.We have already (p. 55) marked the broad contrast between the character of the Greeks and that of the Latin and Teutonic nations of Western Europe; between the centralized and l...
26. CHAPTER XI.The infatuation by which in every instance the champions of the cross had nullified or thrown away the advantages gained by their victories was to be shown not less persistently...
27. CHAPTER XII.The number of the crusades might be largely extended if we gave the name to all the minor expeditions to the Holy Land in the intervals between the greater enterprises to which...
28. CHAPTER XIII.The havoc wrought by the Korasmian inroad was alleged by pope Innocent IV. as a reason for sending forth another crusade. In a council held at Lyons, the bishop of Berytos dwelt...
29. CHAPTER XIV.Throughout the history of the crusades the wisdom of the general or the statesman is conspicuous by its absence; and we may fairly compare the long series of these wild enterpri...
30. CHAPTER XV.The crusades had come to an end. The embers smouldered on: but it was to the last degree unlikely that they would be rekindled. The great military orders withdrew to seek a fiel...