HIST 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pope Gregory Vii, Iter, Peace Movement
26 Apr 2016
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Segment 3: western europe in the late 11th century and the background to the. Pilgrimage, holy war and preaching: urban"s sermon, pilgrimage and relics, what ideas and activities were around pilgrimage as the expedition was seen as a pilgrimage, holy war, and peace, the context of urban"s sermon and responses to it. November 27th 1095: urban called meeting, called together council of bishops and senior church executives, lay people, to hold council in city of clermont. Council finishes, urban goes into field/open square, to preach his final sermon of meeting and make well hyped rallying call to people of christendom (variety of accounts of this): Important to understand what sense of what they believed urban said, and what still reverberates centuries later: robert the monk sermon. Deus le volt it is the will of god. Understand what happened in wake of sermon event seen by most, but not all scholars, as having effectively launched the first crusade.
