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Deus Vult – Preaching the Crusade

Deus Vult – Preaching the Crusade. HIST 3004 9/16/13. Urban II (r. 1088-1099). Reform Pope Son of northern French nobility Former Grand Prior of Cluny Cardinal-bishopric of Ostia (senior office in the college of cardinals) Investiture Controversy.

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Deus Vult – Preaching the Crusade

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  1. Deus Vult – Preaching the Crusade HIST 3004 9/16/13

  2. Urban II (r. 1088-1099) Reform Pope Son of northern French nobility Former Grand Prior of Cluny Cardinal-bishopric of Ostia (senior office in the college of cardinals) Investiture Controversy Statue of Pope Urban II in Claremont

  3. Council of Clermont • Nov. 11-28, 1095 • Nov. 27th – Call to Crusade • Set departure date of Aug. 15, 1096 • Under leadership of Adhemar, bishop of Le Puy (papal legate) • Unofficially, Raymond of St. Gilles, Count of Toulouse

  4. Urban II’s Call to Crusade • What did he say? • Why do we have so many different versions? • What differences are there between the different versions? • Why were none of them written before 1099? • How does Urban argue for a “just war”? • How does he argue for a “holy war”? • Should we believe his descriptions of the East? Who are his sources? Fulcher of Chartres, Robert the Monk, Baldric of Dol, and Guibert of Nogent

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