“Urban II’s Speech”

To complete this journal assignment, you will do the following tasks:

1. You will read the primary source: “Urban II’s Speech”
2. You will evaluate the primary source by answering the following questions in two or three paragraphs:
   a. Who wrote these texts?
   b. Who was the author’s intended audience?
   c. What was his purpose in writing the text? Think about audience and genre.
   d. What does this text tell you about the values and daily lives of medieval knights? Give specific examples.
   e. Do the ideas and values conveyed in the text differ from today? If so, in what ways?
3. In a concluding paragraph, you will compare and contrast these accounts of the speech. What do they have in common? Do you notice significant differences? How should these differences cause us to think about other historical sources that might only have one surviving account?