. Medieval Europe from 395 to 1270. THE POPES AND THE CRUSADES. 351 Jerusalem was reached only at the price of great dan-gers. In 1094 a monk, a native of Amiens, Peter theHermit, made the attempt, but failed in it. The accounts-brought back by the pilgrims in Italy and France, of thepersecutions endured by Christians in Palestine, fired theimaginations of their listeners and aroused in them amad thirst for vengeance. 6. The Mussulmans New Advance in Spain. Zalacca,1085.—Spain at this same time was the theatre of eventswhich spread terror among the Christians. The king-doms of Leon and N^avarr
. Medieval Europe from 395 to 1270. THE POPES AND THE CRUSADES. 351 Jerusalem was reached only at the price of great dan-gers. In 1094 a monk, a native of Amiens, Peter theHermit, made the attempt, but failed in it. The accounts-brought back by the pilgrims in Italy and France, of thepersecutions endured by Christians in Palestine, fired theimaginations of their listeners and aroused in them amad thirst for vengeance. 6. The Mussulmans New Advance in Spain. Zalacca,1085.—Spain at this same time was the theatre of eventswhich spread terror among the Christians. The king-doms of Leon and N^avarre, and Castile and Aragon, hadbeen formed there at the expense of the Arabs. In 1085Toledo fell into the hands of the Christians; but then afresh horde of Mussulmans, the wild Almoravids, came tathe assistance of their fellow-worshippers, and in 1087gained an important victor}^ near Zalacca. The Christiankingdoms were invaded, and it was feared that thePyrenees might not prove impassable. The capture ofJerusalem, then of Antioch,
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