Please choose ONE of the five accounts of Urban IIs speech to call for the First Crusade (your choice!) and summarize the source you chose. Do you consider it to be the most accurate source? Why or why not?

Please read the following primary source excerpts, and answer the questions below in your own words:

Five Versions of Pope Urban IIs Speech to begin the First Crusade

Nicetas Choniates, The Sack of Constantinople (1204)

Introduction to Peter Abelards Sic et Non

Please choose ONE of the five accounts of Urban IIs speech to call for the First Crusade (your choice!) and summarize the source you chose. Do you consider it to be the most accurate source? Why or why not?
Are the contents of this primary source consistent with the video about Urban II you have watched? Why or why not?
How would you compare Niketas Choniatess perspective on the Western European Crusaders to the way the participants in the first Crusaders viewed themselves?
Based upon all the sources you have viewed, and the primary sources you have read, do you think the Crusading movement made the Roman Catholic Church stronger or weaker? Why?
Why might Peter Abelards introduction to his work have raised concerns for church authorities?
How did the Crusades contribute to learning in the medieval European universities (give at least one example)?

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/urban2-5vers.asp

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/choniates1.asp

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/1120abelard.asp

MUST BE IN OWN WORDS. ANSWER QUESTION CLEARLY AND ONLY USE SOURCES PROVIDED.

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