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See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER THE See also:HERMIT , a See also:priest of See also:Amiens, who may, as See also:Anna Comnena says, have attempted to go on a See also:pilgrimage to See also:Jerusalem before 5096, and have been prevented by the See also:Turks from reaching his destination. It is uncertain whether he was See also:present at See also:Urban's See also:great See also:sermon at Clermont in 1o95; but it is certain that he was one of the preachers of the crusade in See also:France after that sermon, and his own experience may have helped to give See also:fire to his eloquence. He soon leapt into fame as an emotional revivalist preacher: his very See also:ass became an See also:object of popular See also:adoration; and thousands of peasants eagerly took the See also:cross at his bidding. The crusade of the pauperes, which forms the first See also:act in the first crusade, was his See also:work; and he himself led one of the five sections of the pauperes to See also:Constantinople, starting from See also:Cologne in See also:April, and arriving at Constantinople at the end of See also:July io96. Here he joined the only other See also:section which had succeeded in reaching Constantinople—that of See also:Walter the Penniless; and with the See also:joint forces, which had made themselves a See also:nuisance by pilfering, he crossed to the See also:Asiatic See also:shore in the beginning of See also:August. In spite of his warnings, the pauperes began hostilities against the Turks; and Peter returned to Constantinople, either in despair at their recklessness, or in the See also:hope of procuring supplies. In his See also:absence the See also:army was cut to pieces by the Turks; and he was See also:left in Constantinople without any followers, during the See also:winter of 1096-1097, to wait for the coming of the princes. He joined himself to their ranks in May 1097, with a little following which he seems to have collected, and marched with them through See also:Asia See also:Minor to Jerusalem. But he played a very subordinate See also:part in the See also:history of the first crusade. He appears, in the beginning of 1098, as attempting to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from the privations of the See also:siege of See also:Antioch—showing himself, as See also:Guibert of Nogent says, a " fallen See also:star." In the See also:middle of the See also:year he was sent by the princes to invite Kerbogha to See also:settle all See also:differences by a See also:duel; and in 1099 he appears as treasurer of the See also:alms at the siege of See also:Area (See also:March), and as See also:leader of the supplicatory processions in Jerusalem which preceded the See also:battle of See also:Ascalon (August). At the end of the year he went to See also:Laodicea, and sailed thence for the See also:West. From this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he disappears; but See also:Albert of See also:Aix records that he died in 1151, as See also:prior of a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the See also:Holy See also:Sepulchre which he had founded in France.
See also:Legend has made Peter the Hermit the author and originator of the first crusade. It has told how, in an See also:early visit to Jerusalem, before 1096, See also:Christ appeared to him in the Church of the Sepulchre, and bade him preach the crusade. The legend is without any basis in fact, though it appears in the pages of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William of See also:Tyre. Its origin is, however, a See also:matter of some See also:interest. Von See also:Sybel, in his Geschichte See also:des ersten Kreuzzuges, suggests that in the See also:camp of the pauperes (which existed See also:side by side with that of the knights, and See also:grew increasingly large as the crusade told more and more heavily in its progress on the purses of the crusaders) some idolization of Peter the Hermit had already begun, during the first crusade, parallel to the similar glorification of See also:Godfrey by the Lorrainers. In this idolization Peter naturally became the instigator of the crusade, just as Godfrey became the founder of the See also:kingdom of Jerusalem and the legislator of the assizes. This version of Peter's career seems as old as the Chanson des chetifs, a poem which See also:Raymond of Antioch caused to be composed in See also:honour of the Hermit and his followers, soon after 1130. It also appears in the pages of Albert of Aix, who wrote somewhere about 113o; and from Albert it was borrowed by William of Tyre. The whole legend of Peter is an excellent instance of the legendary amplification of the first crusade—an amplification which, beginning during the crusade itself, in the " idolizations " of the different camps (idola castrorum, if one may pervert See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon), soon See also:developed into a See also:regular See also:saga. This saga found its most piquant beginning in the Hermit's See also:vision at Jerusalem, and there it accordingly began—alike in Albert, followed by William of Tyre and in the Chanson des chetifs, followed by the later Chanson d'Antioche.
The See also:original authorities for the See also:story of Peter the Hermit are: for the See also:authentic Peter, Anna Comnena and the Gesta Francorum;
for the legendary Peter, Albert of Aix. The whole career of the Hermit has been thoroughly and excellently discussed by H. Hagenmeyer, Peter der Heremite (See also:Leipzig, 1879). (E.
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