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THE recovery in July 1099 of the city of Jerusalem by crusaders after four and a half centuries of Muslim rule was the strongest indication yet of a shift in the balance of power from the eastern Mediterranean region to the west.
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votum crucis, papal lordship, banal rights, taifa kings, taifa rulers, vassalic relationship, allodial estates, imperial renewal, communal republics, ducal rule, taifa kingdoms, patrimonial domain, legatine commission, ooo gold pieces, papal councils, election decree, ecclesiastical lordships, twelh century, papal schism, reforming papacy, cardinal priest, allodial lands, suo territorio, papal curia, senior prince
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Frederick Barbarossa, Otto of Freising, Henry the Lion, Asia Minor, Second Crusade, Concilium Lateranense, Bernard of Clairvaux, Robert Guiscard, Monte Cassino, First Crusade, Constantine Monomachos, Philip Augustus, Holy Land, Michael Psellos, Third Crusade, Duke William, Henry the Proud, John of Salisbury, Boleslaw Krzywousty, Count Geoffrey, Pope Alexander, Third Lateran Council, Count Roger, Pope Gregory, Isaac Komnenos
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