Identifier: medivalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he legend represents. 128. The Council of Clermont (1095). While the religiousfeelings of the Christians of the West were growing tenser day byday, the Turks in the East were making constant advances, untilat last they were threatening Constantinople itself. The EmperorAlexis Comnenus sent urgent letters to the Pope, asking for aidagainst the infidels, representing that, unless help were extendedimmediately, the capital with all its holy relics must soon fall intothe hands of the barbarians. Pope Urban called a great council of the Church at Piacenzain Italy to consider the appeal, but nothing was effected at thismeeting. Later in the same year a new council was convenedat Clermont in France, Urban purposely fixing the place of meet-ing among the warm-tempered and martial Franks. Fourteenarchbishops, two hundred and twenty-five bishops, four hundredabbots, and of others a multitude that no man could number,crowded to the council. After the meeting had considered some minor matters the
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