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On this day, in the year 1095, Pope Urban II met with the nobility of western Europe at the Council of Clermont, in what is now southern France, and summoned the First Crusade to fight the forces ...

The Crusades began in November 1095, at the Council of Clermont in France, Nicholas Morton, senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, and author of "The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land ...

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The Crusades have inspired a vast amount of writing since the very beginning. Most scholars date their beginnings to November 1095 CE, when Pope Urban II stepped onto a rostrum outside the town ...

In 1095, in his speech at the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II introduced the idea of bellum sacrum—a war that was not only just, but justifying. War could thus be a positive, meritorious act.

Other Crusades experts go further. Dr Khaled Abou El Fadl, professor of Islamic law at the University of California, believes the film promotes the idea of "a civilisational showdown between Islamic ...