America’s obsession with the new and funky means that sometimes our leaders forget the lessons of the past.
, is not only grounding but instructive as well. Publication is scheduled for October 1.
His wife wasn’t so keen on the idea of him heading off. “The wife ‘held her husband fast by his cloak and belt, and publicly ... prevented him from going to the Archbishop,’” the book quotes from a contemporary account. He had spent much time, “almost his entire adult life,” establishing his rule and developing a profitable trade with the people of North Africa. Invading would throw all that up in the air. The result was he suggested Baldwin and crew find somewhere else to invade, preferably at the other end of the Mediterranean.
Still, the poor odds of success didn’t stop Urban. He gave rousing speeches which provoked at least one Bishop to beg on bended-knee to go on the “glorious expedition,” the books states. In other words, while the crusaders got the victory they wanted, the price was exceptionally high for many.In July 1221 a crusader army set off up Egypt’s Nile river in pursuit of a sultan and his entourage.
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