Click2Flicks - Kingdom of Heaven - Chapter 1, Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <div align=center> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>KINGDOM OF HEAVEN:</p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="267" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="243"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="243"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch2.htm">2. A CALL TO "LIBERATE"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="243"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch3.htm">3. CRUSADE BACKGROUND</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="243"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch4.htm">4. WHY CRUSADE?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="243"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch5.htm">5. PETER THE HERMIT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch6.htm">6. SLAUGHTER IN JERUSALEM</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch7.htm">7. KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch8.htm">8. SALADIN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch9.htm">9. A LOOMING SHOWDOWN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=287 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch10.htm">10. PRELUDE TO DISASTER</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch11.htm">11. A TRAP IS SET</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch12.htm">12. DEATH AT THE HORNS OF HATTIN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch13.htm">13. DEFEAT for GUY DE LUSIGNAN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch14.htm">14. BALIEN of IBELIN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch15.htm">15. A DOOMED DEFENSE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch16.htm">16. THE FALL OF JERUSALEM</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch17.htm">17. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">Frequently he burned with anxiety<br> because the warfare he engaged in<br> as a knight seemed to be contrary<br> to the Lord’s commands.</i></b><br><br> <a target="_blank" href="images/gesta_tancredi.jpg"><b>Gesta Tancredi</b></a> ("<a target="_blank" href="images/deeds.JPG"><b>Deeds</b></a> of Tancred")<br> A Leader of the First Crusade and<br> Conqueror of Jerusalem, 1099</font><br><br> </div> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p align="left"><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">The eleventh century is nearing its end. <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vie/Jerusalem2.html" target="_blank"><b>Jerusalem</b></a>, a place where people of different faiths had once lived peacefully <a target="_blank" href="images/together1.jpg"><b>together</b></a>, is a <a target="_blank" href="images/city.jpg"><b>city</b></a> <a href="http://www.aish.com/Israel/articles/Jerusalem_Jewish_and_Moslem_Claims_to_the_Holy_City_p.asp" target="_blank"><b>holy</b></a> to Jews, Christians and Muslims. Since <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/jerutime.html" target="_blank"><b>638</b></a>, when Caliph Omar (Muhammad's successor) captured the city for the Muslims, it has been under <a target="_blank" href="images/islamic_rule.JPG"><b>Islamic rule</b></a>.</p> <p>Pope <a target="_blank" href="images/GregoryVII.jpg"><b>Gregory VII</b></a> is concerned about continued Muslim <a target="_blank" href="images/control.jpg"><b>control</b></a> (the link depicts <a href="http://wikisource.org/wiki/Covenant_of_Omar" target="_blank"><b>Omar’s code/covenant</b></a>) over Christianity’s most sacred sites and relics. In a 1074 letter, the pope issues the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-cde1078.html" target="_blank"><b>first call</b></a> for what would later be known as a crusade:</p> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>He </b></i>[a visitor to the pontiff] <b><i>repeated what we had heard from many others, that a pagan race had overcome the Christians and with horrible cruelty had devastated everything almost to the walls of Constantinople ... we should lay down our lives to liberate them.</i></b></font></blockquote> </div> <p align="right"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="kingdom_heaven_ch2.htm"><b>GO TO CHAPTER 2</b></a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </font> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>