Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance

part in the Second Crusade, joined the undertaking, in which he was

destined to meet his death.

After having shed more blood and displayed more bravery than would have sufficed to conquer the whole of Asia, after the long and memorable siege of the city of Ptolemais, after many signal successes, the Christian armies, discouraged and diminished by more than one half, returned t...