In The Year 1096.
Robert Chazan
Number of quotes: 4
Book ID: 114 Page: 18
Section: 3A4C
On November 27, 1095, in a large open field outside the French town of Clermont, Urban II, one of the leading reform popes of the eleventh century, exhorted his listeners to commit themselves to a new religio-military enterprise, which the world has subsequently come to know as the crusade.
Quote ID: 2713
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 114 Page: 21
Section: 3A4C
In addition to the baronial armies that successfully swept eastward, a series of popular fighting forces coalesced, the largest and most well known led by an obscure charismatic figure named Peter the Hermit…
The movement toward Constantinople was marred by a number of bloody clashes between Peter’s unruly army and the Christian authorities of Hungary. Little wonder that the Byzantine emperor was simultaneously supportive of Peter and fearful of his troops. One of the most striking images associated with the First Crusade shows Peter’s army camped outside the walls of Constantinople, succored by the largesse of the emperor, but prohibited from entering the great city itself.
Quote ID: 2714
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 114 Page: 22
Section: 3A4C
the German crusading bands were by far the most extreme. They were so disorganized and dangerous that they proved unable even to make their way out of Christendom into the sphere of Islam; they were wiped out in a series of bloody clashes with the troops of the Christian king of Hungary.
Quote ID: 2715
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 114 Page: 91
Section: 3H
The utterances assigned to the Jewish martyrs of 1096 are filled with a vituperative hatred of Christianity, its beliefs, and its symbols. This vituperation is not incidental; it is a key element in passionate Jewish rejection of Christianity. To accept a belief system that was in the eyes of these Jews essentially polytheistic was unthinkable. The Hebrew chronicles reverberate with the Jewish sense that the doctrine of the Trinity was nothing more or less than idolatry in a slightly altered guise. The martyrs are constantly depicted as “declaring the unity of the Divine Name,” thereby emphasizing the perceived gulf between Jewish monotheism and Christian polytheism.
Quote ID: 2716
Time Periods: 7
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