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Originally Posted by audiman08
Wow, I'm a graduate student studying history and I've never heard that....sounds like you've been reading too many novels. The first crusade was a result of Emperor Alexius I requesting help from the Pope because Byzantine pilgrims were being mistreated by the Seljuk Turks (who controlled Jerusalem). Other reasons include political friction between Turkish and southern European nations. Relics really didn't have anything to do with the start of the crusades, afterall there were Christians in Jerusalem before the crusades who would have access to relics there. There would be no need to start a religious war to claim relics they already had access to. Sorry for the history lesson...  |
I will pull out my sources tonight - it is part of a library I have assembled studying failure. In this case it was the failure of Man.
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem...