. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. 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 spring of the year 1096 witnessed the f
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. 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 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 Con-. Fig. 102.—Taking of Mctea by the Crusaders, in 1097; from a Window ordered by the AbbeSuger for the Church of the Abbey of St. Denis, and now destroyed.—From the Monu-ments de la Monarchie Franeaise, by Montfaucon (Twelfth Century). stantinople, when the Emperor Alexis L, who had summoned the WesternChristians to his aid against the Turks, succoured them, and enabled themto await the arrival of the more regular expeditions, which had started threemonths later under Godefroy de Bouillon. It was then only that the real Crusade, that is to say, the actual waragainst the unbelievers, commenced. In March, 1097, the Christian armycrossed the Bosphorus from Thrace, seized Nicoea (Fig. 102), penetrated into THE CRUSADES. Syria, and laid siege to the important town of Antioch, which by an act oftreachery was forced to surrender in June, 1098. In the spring of the follow-ing year the soldiers of Christ ent
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