robert curthose gave the speech in cleremont france which began the crusades.
robert curthose gave the speech in cleremont france which began the crusades.
who gave the speech in cleremont france which began the crusades?
robert curthose
in 1095, pope urban ii called for a crusade to re-conquer the holy land from muslim rule, when the seljuk turks prevented christians from visiting the holy sites there. for centuries prior to the emergence of islam, asia minor and much of the mid east had been a part of the roman and later byzantine empires. the crusades were originally launched in response to a call from the byzantine emperor for help to fight the expansion of the turks into anatolia. the first crusade succeeded in its task, but at a serious cost on the home front, and the crusaders established rule over the holy land. however, muslim forces reconquered the land by the 13th century, and subsequent crusades were not very successful. the specific crusades to restore christian control of the holy land were fought over a period of nearly 200 years, between 1095 and 1291. other campaigns in spain and portugal (the reconquista), and northern crusades continued into the 15th century. the crusades had major far-reaching political, economic, and social impacts on europe. they further served to alienate eastern and western christendom from each other and ultimately failed to prevent the march of the turks into europe through the balkans and the caucasus.
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lamira summons dinant to a tryst; cleremont comes with him. to complete their tryst, lamira tells cleremont that he must take her place in bed with her husband: the old man has a habit of reaching out to feel if she's still in bed, and if he feels no one, he'll be alarmed. cleremont is humiliated to be put in this position — but his friendship for dinant leads him to agree. dinant thinks that he will finally enjoy lamira; but she talks loudly, lights the lights, and has music played, spoiling the secrecy of the moment. it turns out that cleremont has been lying in bed not with the old man, but with his sixteen-year-old niece anabel. champernell, beaupre, and verdone laugh at the discomfiture of their two rivals.
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