Identifier: modernhistoryeur00west (find matches)
Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the conquered Syrian districts among themselves andset up there four Latin states, of which the chief was theKingdom of Jerusalem. Each ruler divided his realm infeudal fashion among his retainers, and, on the soil of Asia, acomplete feudal society sprang up, to continue the war againstthe crescent. These Latin states found the core of their fighting force in anew institution, which combined in a remarkable fashion thetwo opposite ideals of the age, — that of the monk and that ofthe knight. Three orders of fighting monks arose.1 The Knightsof St. John, or of the Hospital, grew out of an organization tocare for the sick and wounded: soon the nurses became them-selves warriors and knights; they took the monks threefoldvow of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and added a fourth, 1 Brief accounts are given in Emerton, 372-374, and in Tout, Empire andPapacy, 189-191. The Teutonic Order is treated in Hendersons Short His-tory of Germany, 173-181. 108 AGE OF THE CRUSADES, 1100-1300. (§95
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§98) THE SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH CRUSADES. 109 binding themselves to perpetual warfare against the infidel.The Templars arose in like manner out of a society to succordistressed pilgrims, and the name came from the fact that theeight or nine knights who originally composed the organiza-tion dwelt in a house near Solomons Temple. The TeutonicOrder grew out of the hospitality of a German merchanttoward his needy countrymen in Jerusalem. All three ordersplayed important parts in later history. 96. The Second Crusade. — Eor nearly fifty years the new Latin states,reenforced by the annual streams of pilgrim-crusaders, kept the Moham-medan from the Holy Land. Finally, however, the enemy began to gainground again, and in 1147, Europe was alarmed by the fall of Edessa, theforemost outpost of the Christian power in Syria. St. Bernard (§ 72,note) at once preached another great crusade. This time, EmperorConrad III and King Louis VII of France were persuaded to lead theexpedition. The ente

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