Middle Ages 5: The Crusades -- Why Did They Happen?
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The Medic Pilgrimage - The Heroic Knight Errant
Pilgrims should be armed in order to defend the holy city itself, he said. He told them to take up the cross, and used this phrase from the gospels. This clearly was evoking a chivalric a heroism, she says. The idea of the heroic knight errant at this time was being increasingly celebrated.
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