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Jerusalem Delivered: 2 Mounting the First Crusade

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/02/jerusalem-delivered-2-mounting-the-first-crusade/

<p>It is 1095, another anonymous year between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the start of the Renaissance. There are only about fifty million people in the whole of Europe, and their life expectancy is around thirty years, little more than it was at the height of the Roman Empire. Famines are frequent, and death by starvation common even when crops don’t fail.</p>
<p>Christendom is under threat. Much of Spain and Asia Minor is under the control of Caliphates, and the Byzantine Empire consists of little more than Constantinople and Greece. The major powers in western Europe are France, and the Holy Roman Empire extending from the North Sea to central Italy. Since 1054, Christians in the Byzantine Empire had separated into the Eastern Orthodox Church, while those in the west of Europe still follow Rome in its Catholicism.</p>
<p>For the whole population, death is only a matter of time, and usually not that far away either. Their only hope in life is to go to heaven as their only chance of self-improvement. Opportunities to gain a place in heaven come seldom, though, and most fear deeply that they will only suffer worse torment in hell.</p>
<p>Pope Urban II has a plan. Having travelled through France to attend a meeting in Clermont, on 27 November he delivers a sermon calling for a holy war against the Caliphates occupying the Middle East, to return the Holy City of Jerusalem to Christian rule. The grounds given for this are paradoxical: he describes European society

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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt-Vol6/pages/225-creepy-town/

A creepy town from Dracula, illustrated by Gustav Doré, reproduced in an 1883 Art Journal article about Doré.

And what is that shadow? And is that a cat or a dog? Hands up everyone who wants to live in that town!

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A black and white engraving. Well, mostly black. It’s night time.

Here we see two people, one with an arm raised, running across an empty courtyard: empty except for a black dog or cat running in the other direction.

All around are tall dark and foreboding buildings with steep Gothic turrets, a melodramatically creepy town!

And in the courtyard, a disturbing moon-shadow as if of a giant bird.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt-Vol6/pages/221-don-quixote-in-his-study/

Don Quixote in his study, from an article about the artist, Gustave Doré, in Vol 3 of Cassels Magazine of Art (1883).

It’s become a classic fantasy trope, mythical creatures appearing when someone reads a book, but here is is in the 19th century.

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Don Quixote sits in his wing chair in his study, reading a book; a swathe of fantasy creatures peer at him. He waves his sword at them.

Black and white engraving by Gustave Doré (1822-1883).

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✨ DORÉ : Lumière céleste et scintillements ✨
Quand les jours sont courts, le doré devient un refuge visuel. Heure dorée, étoiles, paillettes, reflets nocturnes… chaque éclat compte. 🌟
Prenons le temps d’observer ces lumières discrètes.
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