Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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-claiming the decrees which had been promulgated there. Thenceforward all,in spite of age, sex, or social position, were carried away by the same enthu-siasm. Family ties were broken, riches were no longer held of any account.The question was not who had taken up the cross, but who had hesitatedto do so. A poet of the time says, I hold no man a true knight who refusesto go willingly, with his whole heart and with all the means in his power, tothe assistance of God, who so greatly needs it. Women of every rank sewedthe cross to their clothing, children of every age marked it on their innocentbodies. Monks left the retreat where they had hoped to peacefully end theirexistence, hermits came out of their caves and forests, and even the very * God wills it. THE CRUSADES. robbers of the highway came forward, confessed their crimes, and swore toexpiate them in the ranks of the holy army. The train was laid, the matchwas lighted, and for two centuries the Crusades were waged continually, with
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Fig. 101.—Reception of Gautier-sans-Avoir by the King of Hungary, who permits him to passthrough his territory with the Crusaders.—From a Miniature in the Histoire des Empereurs,a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (Library of the Arsenal, Paris). a few intervals of rest, caused by the enormous sacrifice of men and moneyentailed by this gigantic undertaking, which, inspired and controlled by anardent faith, was persisted in, in spite of every reverse and every disaster.The spring of the year 1096 witnessed the first departure of the u6 THE CRUSADES. Crusaders, in two numerous bodies, under the orders of Peter the Hermithimself, and of a poor but valiant warrior, Gautier-sans-Avoir (Fig. 101).But these undisciplined masses, forced to support themselves on their roadby pillage, were dispersed and nearly destroyed by the nations through whosecountries they had to pass, and who were ruined by their advent as they mighthave been by an army of locusts. Only a few thousand ever reached

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