Peter the Hermit
Americannoun
noun
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The images conjured by Urban, Peter the Hermit, and others implied that the Muslim occupation of the Holy Land was unjust and oppressed the Christian community.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
For example, during the First Crusade, the followers of Peter the Hermit arrived in Constantinople first.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Peter the Hermit griped that they “think of nothing but themselves” and are “impatient of all restraint”.
From Economist ● Jul. 30, 2015
Under the learned hands of the chroniclers, commanded by Editor-in-Chief Kenneth Set-ton, Peter the Hermit shrinks from the legendary preacher to a voluble nobody traipsing to Jerusalem behind Pope Urban's carefully marshaled armored forces.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was up in my room at college, studying about Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless for my history exam on the crusades the coming Monday, when the hall phone rang.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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