The First Crusade: How One Pope’s 1095 Speech Launched an Unstoppable Movement
In the autumn of 1095, a letter arrived at the papal court — a plea from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos asking for a few hundred mercenary soldiers to help push back the Seljuk Turks pressing against Constantinople’s borders. What Pope Urban II did with that letter would...
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