The age of the crusades . the Year 1789; translation, London, Low,1870-81, 6 vols. Henry Hallam : View of the State of Europe during the MiddleAges; London, Murray, 1818, 2 vols.; nth ed., 1855, 3 vols.;later eds. ; reprinted, New York, Armstrong, 2 vols. David Hume: The History of England; modern ed., London, Ward,Lock & Co., 1880, 3 vols. ; Amer. ed., Harpers, 6 vols. Henry Hart Milman : History of Latin Christianity; London,Murray, 1854-55, 6 vols. ; 4th ed., 1867, 9 vols.; reprinted,New York, Armstrong, 8 vols. William Robertson : The History of the Reign of the EmperorCharles V., with a V
The age of the crusades . the Year 1789; translation, London, Low,1870-81, 6 vols. Henry Hallam : View of the State of Europe during the MiddleAges; London, Murray, 1818, 2 vols.; nth ed., 1855, 3 vols.;later eds. ; reprinted, New York, Armstrong, 2 vols. David Hume: The History of England; modern ed., London, Ward,Lock & Co., 1880, 3 vols. ; Amer. ed., Harpers, 6 vols. Henry Hart Milman : History of Latin Christianity; London,Murray, 1854-55, 6 vols. ; 4th ed., 1867, 9 vols.; reprinted,New York, Armstrong, 8 vols. William Robertson : The History of the Reign of the EmperorCharles V., with a View of the Progress of Society in Europefrom the Subversion of the Roman Empire to the Beginning ofthe Sixteenth Century; London, 1769; reprinted, Philadelphia,Lippincott, 1857, 3 vols. ; later editions. V. POETICAL TREATMENT OF THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST CRUSADE. Torquato Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata; Venice, 1580. Englishtranslation, Jerusalem Delivered; New York, Appleton. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY—OUTLINE OF FTER the lapse of eight hundred yearsthe story of the crusades still furnishes themost fascinating, if not the most instruc-tive, pages of Christian history. Romancehas entertained the generations from thedays of the Italian Tasso to those of Walter Scott withthe rude yet chivalric characters of those mediaevaltimes. Ponderous knights and dashing emirs, fairwomen and saintly apparitions, continue to move overthe mimic stage of the imagination. Poetry, in allthe tongues of modern Europe, draws its imagery fromscenes that were enacted while these languages werebeing formed from their classic or barbaric hymnology of the church is enriched by the songsof those who caught their rhythm from the march ofthe crusading host. Bernard of Clugny watched thesalvation armies of the olden time as they saunteredby his cloister window. Now catching their spirit,and anon oppressed with their failure to express thetruest prowess of the believers soul, he tried to lift
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