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How the Pope Used Biblical Rhetoric to Justify the First Crusade
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How the Pope Used Biblical Rhetoric to Justify the First Crusade
Pope Urban II’s speech at the Council of Clermont interlaced biblical imagery with a call to action. He used familiar stories from the Bible to promise salvation. Despite the hardship borne by peasants on Earth, they saw crusading as the best way to guarantee eternal paradise in the afterlife. This promise of deliverance was tempting enough to justify and incite violence. In a world divided by social classes, religion served as a point of comm…
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