The Crusades

451.169 - 484.065 Nathan W. Bingham

And now Christians began to say, perhaps we are leading up to that moment and we begin to contemplate that the infidel holds Jerusalem. Now we might say, well, the infidel had held Jerusalem for centuries. Why all of a sudden would Christians begin to think that this was so traumatic, so significant? Well, in part because in the ten hundreds, Christians began to be more interested in pilgrimages.