The age of the crusades . resplendent star of Allah, on the re-demption of Jerusalem, from which Mohammed had 194 Palestine after the Second Crusade. made his miraculous night journey to Mecca, and onthe holy war, which must be continued until allthe branches of impiety should be cut from the treeof life. The joy of the Moslem world had its refrain in thewails of Europe. It is said that Pope Urban III., onhearing the news, died of a broken heart. The min-strels composed lamentations as the captives did bythe rivers of Babylon. Courts and churches weredraped in mourning. The superstitious saw t
The age of the crusades . resplendent star of Allah, on the re-demption of Jerusalem, from which Mohammed had 194 Palestine after the Second Crusade. made his miraculous night journey to Mecca, and onthe holy war, which must be continued until allthe branches of impiety should be cut from the treeof life. The joy of the Moslem world had its refrain in thewails of Europe. It is said that Pope Urban III., onhearing the news, died of a broken heart. The min-strels composed lamentations as the captives did bythe rivers of Babylon. Courts and churches weredraped in mourning. The superstitious saw tears fallfrom the eyes of the wooden and stone saints thatornamented the churches. The general gloom wasdescribed by one who felt it as like the darknessover the earth from the sixth to the ninth hour, whenChrist was crucified. CHAPTER XXVII. EUROPE BETWEEN THE SECOND AND THIRD CRU-SADES— SUPERSTITION — THE WALDENSES —DEGRADATION OF THE PAPACY—FRANCEUNDER LOUIS — ENGLAND UNDER HENRY II.—RICHARD CCEUR DE ORTY years had elapsed since the ill-fatedcrusade of Louis VII. and Conrad (i 147)to avenge the capture of Edessa byZenghi, and the crowning calamity, thefall of Jerusalem into the hands of Sala-din (1187). We may briefly note some of the con-ditions and changes in Europe during this period. Men were thinking, though the dense darkness ofmediaeval night yet remained, and the spectres ofsuperstition which inhabited the human mind wereas many and as strange as ever. For example, theyear 1186 was looked for with alarm by the peopleof northern Europe, because of the predictions of as-trologers that certain conjunctions of the stars thenbetokened dire evils to mankind. In the language ofa contemporary : The planets being in an aerial andwindy sign, . . there shall arise in the East a mightywind, and with its stormy blasts it shall blacken the air i95 196 Europe after the Second Crusade. and corrupt it with poisonous stench. . The windshall raise aloft the sands and
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