The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273

chapter xx.]. He saw the beginnings of a fresh Crusade against the

obstinate heathen on the eastern shores of the Baltic. But all these Crusades were against pagans and infidels. [Sidenote: Extension of the crusading idea.] Innocent made a much greater new departure when he proclaimed the first Crusade directed against a Christian land. The Albigensian Crusade, which can more profit...