Council of Clermont
A church council, held in 1095, at which Pope Urban II made a powerful speech urging the knights of medieval Europe to join in a Crusade to the Holy Land, to assist the Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus in his war against the Turks, to rescue the Holy Sepulcher from Moslem hands, and to reach the lands of the East where there was greater wealth and a greater abundance of food. The First Crusade was a direct outcome of the Pope's skillful pleading.
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Clorinda
Clorinda
The pagan heroine whose praises are sung in Tasso Jerusalem Delivered, daughter of Senapus of Ethiopia, a Christian. Because she was born white, her mother changes her for a black child. The eunuch Arsetes is entrusted with the infant Clorinda, and as he is going through a forest, he sees a tiger, drops the child, and seeks safety in a tree. The tiger takes the babe and suckles it, after which the eunuch carries the child to Egypt. In the siege of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, Clorinda is a leader of the pagan forces. Tancred falls in love with her, but slays her unknowingly in a night attack. Before she expires she receives Christian baptism at the hands of Tancred, who greatly mourns her death.
The pagan heroine whose praises are sung in Tasso Jerusalem Delivered, daughter of Senapus of Ethiopia, a Christian. Because she was born white, her mother changes her for a black child. The eunuch Arsetes is entrusted with the infant Clorinda, and as he is going through a forest, he sees a tiger, drops the child, and seeks safety in a tree. The tiger takes the babe and suckles it, after which the eunuch carries the child to Egypt. In the siege of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, Clorinda is a leader of the pagan forces. Tancred falls in love with her, but slays her unknowingly in a night attack. Before she expires she receives Christian baptism at the hands of Tancred, who greatly mourns her death.
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