Read and answer two questions!
Read and answer with textual evidence to support your response
1. What are Pope Urban’s reasons for urging the Franks (a term for the French and for western Europeans generally in much Crusading literature) to take up arms and go to the Holy Land?
2. What is the tone of his speech in presenting these reasons? Is this a rational appeal, or an emotional one? Or both? How important is religion in the appeal? What motivation an emotional one? Or both? How important is religion in the appeal? What motivations other than religious ones does Urban give?
