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The response was overwhelming. With the cry “Deus vult!” ("God wills it"), thousands took the cross. Bands of poorly armed pilgrims, most of them inexperienced and poor, set out for Constantinople under Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless even before the army gathered...
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Bands of poorly armed pilgrims, most of them inexperienced and poor, set out for Constantinople under Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless even before the army gathered. Some began by massacring Jews in the Rhine valley. Many perished on there way east, and the rest were destroyed by the Muslims when they crossed into Anatolia...
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Crusades The crusades were mainly directed to Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulcher.(West 5) Jerusalem was taken by the caliph Umar in the 7th century, and early in the 11th century Fatmid caliph Hakim began to persecute the Christians and despoil the Holy Sepulcher...	5 / 1172
Crusading Movement The Crusades were military expeditions undertaken by Christian Europe between the 11th and the 17th century to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims...	6 / 1489
The Three Crusades There were three Crusades and they all took different routes from western Europe to Palestine. THE FIRST CRUSADE - The first crusade began in A.D. 1095...	3 / 596
First Crusade The First Crusade - 1096 - 1099 A brief description and outline of the Cause of the Crusades is as follows: The massacre of 3000 Christian Pilgrims in Jerusalem prompted the first crusade Religious Conviction of crusaders The Instinct to Fight The Preaching of Peter the Hermit The Threat of the Turks The Council of Clermont led by Pope Urban II - "It is the will of God" Leaders of the First Crusade The leaders of the First Crusade included some of the most distinguished representatives of European knighthood...	4 / 901
Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) Table of Contents (Clicking on the links below will take you to that part of this article) * Life * Philosophical Writings * Theology Life The father of medieval scholasticism and one of the most eminent of English prelates was born at Aost Piedmont in 1033...	5 / 1343
Anselm's doctrine of the atonement in Cur Deus Homo Anselm's theory on atonement is that of a philosophical one which he believes should be understood as a necessity. Anselm's doctrine, ?Cur Deus Homo' which is translated as ?why God became a man (human being)', and the motive behind this work is to prove God's existence...	2 / 438
Anselm Cur Deus Homo? is divided into two books, the first of which "contains the objections of unbelievers who reject the Christian faith because they regard it as contrary to reason, along with the answers of believers...	1 / 215