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Page viii
... Alexius— They meet - Honours paid to Godfrey — The Turcopoles — Knight's armour - The crossbow - Cause of Alexius ' hatred to Bohe- mond - Norman invasion of Sicily — Settlement in Italy - Defeat of the Pope - Bohemond determines to ...
... Alexius— They meet - Honours paid to Godfrey — The Turcopoles — Knight's armour - The crossbow - Cause of Alexius ' hatred to Bohe- mond - Norman invasion of Sicily — Settlement in Italy - Defeat of the Pope - Bohemond determines to ...
Page ix
... Alexius looked for to succour them - Desertions - Alexius keeps back aid - Revival of hope - Kerboga's insolence - The invention of the Holy Lance -Peter Bartholomæus - A truce proclaimed - Peter the Hermit's mission to Kerboga - It is ...
... Alexius looked for to succour them - Desertions - Alexius keeps back aid - Revival of hope - Kerboga's insolence - The invention of the Holy Lance -Peter Bartholomæus - A truce proclaimed - Peter the Hermit's mission to Kerboga - It is ...
Page xi
... Alexius - Death of Fulk - Accession of his son as Baldwin III . - Loss of Edessa - Slaughter of the Chris- tians , 176-234 CHAPTER VI . LEWIS VII . AND ST . BERNARD - THE SECOND CRUSADE . Bernard's early history - His mother sends him ...
... Alexius - Death of Fulk - Accession of his son as Baldwin III . - Loss of Edessa - Slaughter of the Chris- tians , 176-234 CHAPTER VI . LEWIS VII . AND ST . BERNARD - THE SECOND CRUSADE . Bernard's early history - His mother sends him ...
Page 40
... Alexius had made the Count of Vermandois a prisoner . Hugh had travelled through Italy , and relying on the fact that the Greeks were Christians , disembarked at Durazzo with only a very slight escort . The Greek empire at this time was ...
... Alexius had made the Count of Vermandois a prisoner . Hugh had travelled through Italy , and relying on the fact that the Greeks were Christians , disembarked at Durazzo with only a very slight escort . The Greek empire at this time was ...
Page 41
... Alexius had feigned a great wish to see him , and the Hermit had had an interview with the wily Greek , who pre- tended to applaud his motives and to sympathize with the object of the Crusades . Hugh de Vermandois , when leaving France ...
... Alexius had feigned a great wish to see him , and the Hermit had had an interview with the wily Greek , who pre- tended to applaud his motives and to sympathize with the object of the Crusades . Hugh de Vermandois , when leaving France ...
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