Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 150
the mariners of the Middle Ages had strong reasons for avoidingopen blasphemy, for, an offence against Heaven being considered far morecriminal than any injury to mankind, a blasphemer was liable to fine, to thecat, and to death itself. Even in the thirteenth century the Danish codeinflicted a… … Fig. 96.—Seal of La Kochelle (1437). THE CRUSADES. Arab Conquest of the Holy Land.—Swarm of Pilgrims in the Year 1000.—Turkish Invasion ofJudea.—Persecution of the Christians.—Pope Silvester II.—Expedition of the Pisans and theGenoese—Peter the Hermit.—Letter from Simeon the Patriarch to Pope Urban…
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