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The central mystery of the first crusade has always been |
why so many people responded to Urban ii's appeal for an expedition to the east |
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It is particularly difficult to explain the attraction of the first crusade as in 1095 there was no |
'crusading infrastructure' |
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John France has claimed that |
he believes tha ' something like 60,000, including 6-7000 knights gathered at Nicaea in 1097 |
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The numbers who travelled to the Levant were indeed large by contemporary standards but nothing like Anna Comnena's |
'whole of the West and all the barbarians' |
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It was the nature of contemporary society that every important man or woman lived in a mouvance which was |
the patronage of another |
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For those who recieved the call for the crusade and moved to consider taking the cross... |
the attitude of a head of a mouvance was critical
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The knights were not a class, they were referred to as MILITES |
but this does not designate status, rather it refers to function |
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It is clear that the knightly milieu was extraordinarily fluid as shown by... |
the lowest level, when knights mingled with the superior peasants and the highest level when they were milites of considerable status with entire mouvances of their own |
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The second half of the 11th century was an age of great social mobility |
by then the new wealth of Europe was opening up new horizons and providing new oppurtunities |
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The crusade was like any other successful movement... |
it offered something for everyone - - salvation - cash - land - status |
