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The First Crusade: The Accounts Of Eye-Witnesses And Participants

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction I Prologue 22 Chapter I. The Summons 24 1. Conditions in Europe at the beginning of the Crusade 2. Urban's plea for a Crusade 3. The immediate response 4. Urban's instructions to assembling Crusaders. Chapter II. The March to Constantinople 44 1. The Departure 2. The March of the Peasants 3. The Main Body. Chapter III. Alexius and the Crusaders 1. Alexius and the Peasants. Fate of the Peasants' Crusade 2. The Emperor's treatment of Hugh 3. Godfrey at Constantinople 4. Alexius and the minor leaders 5. Bohemund and the Emperor 6. Raymond and the Emperor 7. Robert of Normandy and Stephen at the Emperor's Court 8. Siege and capture of Nicaea 9. Alexius at the surrender of Nicaea 10. The views of Alexius on his relations with the Crusaders. Chapter IV. From Nicaea to Antioch 112 1. Battle of Dorylaeum 2. Hardships of the march through Asia Minor 3. Baldwin and Tancred depart from the main army 4. The march through Armenia 5. Beginning of the siege of Antioch 6. Summary of the march to Antioch and the beginning of the siege 7. The foraging expedition of Bohemund and Robert of Flanders 8. Sufferings in camp before Antioch 9. Call for reinforcements 10. The e

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