The book The Normans in European History was written by author Haskins, Charles Homer, 1870-1937 Here you can read free online of The Normans in European History book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Normans in European History a good or bad book?
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It takes us over the sea to the fair land of Sicily and on to the very gates of the Holy City. In 128 NORMANS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY (1 1 87 the capture of Jerusalem had crowned the long efforts of the great Saladin, and where a century before Christian knights had ridden ** up to their bridles " in the blood of the slaughtered Moslem, a procession of knights , and priests and poorer folk passed out of the ga^fuof- "Dgvjd and left the H ^ Sepulchre to the infidel. To the , Saracens a certain sign ...that they were the only people 'whnntjj^^^^^y^^ agTfif^^^^ ta^Qf>fl/' the fall of JerusalemkiUedthe aged Pope, plunged Europe into prayer and fasting, and brought on the Third Crusade, 1 under the leadership of the emperor Frederick Barba- 1 rossa, Philip of France, and Richard of England. Ridi=4" ard, then merely count of Poitou, was the first western prince to take the cross in this holy war; his father and Philip soon sealed their crusading vows with a public reconciliation under a great elm on the borders of Nor- mandy and France, and the chroniclers tell us that every man made peace with his neighbor, thinking no more of tournaments and fiile raiment, the lust of the flesh and the pride of the eye, but only of the recovery of the Holy City, Such great waves of renunciation and religious enthusiasm are peculiarly characteristic of the Middle Ages, but their force was soon spent.
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