God Wills It! A Tale of the First Crusade
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William Stearns Davis. God Wills It! A Tale of the First Crusade
PREFACE
PROLOGUE. HOW HILDEBRAND GAVE A BATTLE CRY
CHAPTER I. HOW BARON WILLIAM SALLIED FORTH
CHAPTER II. HOW RICHARD WON THREE FRIENDS
CHAPTER III. HOW RICHARD WON A BROTHER
CHAPTER IV. HOW RICHARD WENT TO PALERMO
CHAPTER V. HOW RICHARD WON TWO FOES
CHAPTER VI. HOW ROLLO MET INSULT
CHAPTER VII. HOW DE VALMONT SENT HIS GAGE
CHAPTER VIII. HOW IFTIKHAR SPED A VAIN ARROW
CHAPTER IX. HOW TRENCHEFER DROVE HOME
CHAPTER X. HOW IFTIKHAR SAID FAREWELL TO SICILY
CHAPTER XI. HOW RICHARD FARED TO AUVERGNE
CHAPTER XII. HOW RICHARD CAME TO ST. JULIEN
CHAPTER XIII. HOW RICHARD SINNED AGAINST HEAVEN
CHAPTER XIV. HOW RICHARD'S SIN WAS REWARDED
CHAPTER XV. HOW RICHARD FOUND THE CRUCIFIX
CHAPTER XVI. HOW LADY IDE FORGAVE RICHARD
CHAPTER XVII. HOW RICHARD SAW PETER THE HERMIT
CHAPTER XVIII. HOW RICHARD MET GODFREY OF BOUILLON
CHAPTER XIX. HOW RICHARD TOOK THE CROSS
CHAPTER XX. HOW RICHARD RECEIVED GREAT MERCY
CHAPTER XXI. HOW RICHARD RETURNED TO LA HAYE
CHAPTER XXII. HOW RICHARD PARTED WITH HIS BROTHER
CHAPTER XXIII. HOW IFTIKHAR'S MESSENGER RETURNED
CHAPTER XXIV. HOW THEY SLEW THE FIRST INFIDEL
CHAPTER XXV. HOW DUKE GODFREY SAVED THE DAY
CHAPTER XXVI. HOW RICHARD WAS AGAIN CHASTENED
CHAPTER XXVII. HOW THE ARMY CAME TO ANTIOCH
CHAPTER XXVIII. HOW RICHARD REGAINED HIS BROTHER
CHAPTER XXIX. HOW IFTIKHAR BORE HOME HIS PRIZE
CHAPTER XXX. HOW THERE WAS FESTIVAL AT ALEPPO
CHAPTER XXXI. HOW MARY REDEEMED HER SOUL
CHAPTER XXXII. HOW MORGIANA PROFFERED TWO CUPS
CHAPTER XXXIII. HOW EYBEK TURNED GRAY
CHAPTER XXXIV. HOW MUSA PRACTISED MAGIC
CHAPTER XXXV. HOW RICHARD HEARD A SONG
CHAPTER XXXVI. HOW THE ISMAELIANS SAW TRENCHEFER
CHAPTER XXXVII. HOW ROLLO CARRIED WEIGHT
CHAPTER XXXVIII. HOW RICHARD AND MUSA AGAIN PARTED
CHAPTER XXXIX. HOW PETER BARTHELMY HAD A DREAM
CHAPTER XL. HOW THE HOLY LANCE WAS FOUND
CHAPTER XLI. HOW LIGHT SMOTE DARKNESS
CHAPTER XLII. HOW MORGIANA WOUND HER LAST SPELL
CHAPTER XLIII. HOW THE ARMY SAW JERUSALEM
CHAPTER XLIV. HOW MORGIANA BROUGHT WARNING
CHAPTER XLV. HOW RICHARD HAD SPEECH WITH MUSA
CHAPTER XLVI. HOW IFTIKHAR CEASED FROM TROUBLING
CHAPTER XLVII. HOW TRENCHEFER WAS BROKEN
CHAPTER XLVIII. HOW RICHARD SAW THE SUN RISE
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The First Crusade was the sacrifice of France for the sins of the Dark Ages. Alone of all the Crusades it succeeded, despite its surrender of countless lives. No Richard of England, no St. Louis led; its heroes were the nobles and peasants of France and Norman Italy, who endured a thousand perils and hewed their victorious way to Jerusalem. In this Crusade united Feudalism and Papacy won their greatest triumph. Notwithstanding the self-seeking of a few, the mass of the Crusaders were true to their profession,—they sought no worldly gain, but to wash out their sins in infidel blood. In this Crusade also the alien civilizations of Christendom and Islam were brought into a dramatic collision which has few historic counterparts.
Except in Scott's "Count Robert of Paris," which deals wholly with the Constantinople episode, I believe the First Crusade has not been interpreted in fiction. Possibly, therefore, the present book may have a slight value, as seeking to tell the story of the greatest event of a great age.
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"Odon, Cardinal of Ostia, my dear son!" cried the fainting Pope, as the prelate knelt at the bedside, beseeching the blessing. "But—you?" and he wondered, looking upon the knight. The other bowed his head.
"Holy Father," said he, in the tongue of northern France, "do you not know me? I have greatly sinned: I have fought with Henry against Holy Church. I repent; assign any penance—for from Rome I have come, seeking absolution at the hands of the true Vicar of Christ."
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