The policy of Alexius was destined to produce evil results, both for the Eastern empire and for the crusading movement.
Peter and his chancellor de Mezieres represent the last flicker of the crusading spirit.
It contains some fine tapestry and portraits, and the Lee Pennyfamiliar to readers of Sir Walter Scott's Talisman-which was brought from Palestine in the 14th century by the Crusading knight, Sir Simon Lockhart.
The Latinizing Armenians adopted it from Rome in the crusading epoch.
Though crusades had not yet been preached, the strife with the Mussulman at once brought in the crusading element; to the Christian people of the island they were in many cases real deliverers; still, the actual process by which Sicily was won was not so very different from that by which Apulia had been won.
