Produced by Jason Isbell, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Men of the Kingdom Peter the Hermit A STORY OF ENTHUSIASM _By_ DANIEL A. GOODSELL A Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church CINCINNATI: JENNINGS AND GRAHAM NEW YORK: EATON AND MAINS COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY JENNINGS AND GRAHAM PREFACE Original material for a biography of Peter the Hermit either does not exist in this country, or, if here, does not yield itself readily to knowledge and use. The "Life of Peter the Hermit," by D'Outremant, and another by Andre Thevet, on which Michaud draws heavily, seem beyond reach, as are also the histories of the Crusades, by von Raumer and Maunbourg. On examining a number of English and American "Histories of the Crusades," I found them to be largely abridgments or paraphrases of Michaud's monumental work. It is, then, from Michaud and Milman chiefly that the writer has drawn the facts herein recorded, having often found it necessary to chasten the too pronounced Roman sympathies of Michaud by the equally pronounced Protestantism of Milman. To these authors I am so much indebted as to call for the fullest acknowledgment. The Rev. Dr. J. A. Faulkner, Professor in Drew Theological Seminary, has put me under great obligations by permitting me to use Hagenmeyer's "Life of Peter," especially valuable to the early and late parts of Peter's life. BROOKLINE, _June, 1906_. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. PETER THE HERMIT, 7 II. THE MAN AND HIS MESSAGE, 25 III. THE MARCH AND THE BATTLE, 44 IV. THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM, 82 Peter the Hermit CHAPTER I. PETER THE HERMIT. THE FOREGROUND. The great movements called the Crusades followed the leading of universal religious instincts. [Sidenote: _The Cause of Pilgrimages_] [Sidenote: _Belong to all Religions_] [Sidenote: _The Impulse of To-day._] [Sidenote: _Pilgrimages and Historic Memory_]