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The Opening Of The Crusades: Pope Urban II
The series of crusades initiated in the eleventh century brought the West
into greater contact with Byzantium and Islam. These crusades demonstrated
the expansiveness of the West during the High Middle Ages as well as the
increasing power and activism of the papacy. The first of these crusades
was called for in 1095 by Pope Urban 11 {n response to a request for help
from the Byzantine
Emperor Alexius Comnenus. At the Council of Clermont, Urban made the
following plea, recorded by Robert the Monk. Consider: How Urban justified
his call for a crusade; what Urban might have ....
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