Summary
Rene Grousset: Crusading epic
When Pope Urban II, in the last days of June 1095, moved from Italy to France to preach the first crusade, no one seems to have guessed what his intentions were yet. This resident of Champagne, before revealing a plan that will shake the world, wanted to renew ties with his homeland in order to collect his thoughts and feelings under the vaults of the Klinija monastery, where he dreamed in his youth. The voices that could be heard in that area also contributed significantly, although not decisively, to persistence in the plan. Wasn't it precisely from Klini in the 11th century that the first expeditions set out with a crowd of pilgrims whose task was to liberate Christian lands from Muslim slavery? Did not Urban's countryman, Ebl de Rusi, when the pope was about twenty years old, go with French knights from the eastern regions in the direction of the Pyrenees in order to expel the Arabs from Aragon?
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