Peasants and Priests by Stephen Lewis (.ePUB)
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Peasants and Priests by Stephen Lewis
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Overview: It is the year 1096, and the Roman emperor in Constantinople has been at war with the Seljuk Turks for decades. The Turks had recently captured the ancient city of Nicaea and were now within striking distance of his magnificent capital, and, in an act of desperation, he sent emissaries to Pope Urban II to call for aid from their Christian brethren. Urban, who had been struggling for authority over the secular kings of Europe for years, used the opportunity to assert his dominance by raising an army in response.
However, the pope knows that aiding the Kingdom of Greece, as the Western Europeans refer to it, will not rouse the knights of Christendom to action. He sets his sights on a higher prize, one that has eluded the papacy for centuries… the Holy City of Jerusalem. Urban delivers his infamous sermon at Claremont and inspires an opportunistic demagogue named Peter the Hermit to travel across Europe and raise an army of one hundred thousand peasants to answer the call and march to the Holy Land. On a stop in Cologne, a boy of thirteen or fourteen stumbles upon Peter preaching to the masses and is inadvertently swept away with the peasant army, and over the course of the next several years sees both the worst and the best of religion and mankind while searching for universal truth on his way to Jerusalem.
Genre: – Historical Fiction
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