ABSTRACT
The sermons Peter of Pleine Chassagne and Peter of Courpalay delivered constitute examples of crusade preaching occasions that are accompanied by testimonies. On Friday, 23 July 1316, at a crowded ceremony in the Sainte-Chapelle, Peter of Pleine Chassagne, now Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Peter of Courpalay, the Abbot of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, preached the crusade. The Patriarch urged the high-ranking members of the secular clergy, the local bishops, to commission the ecclesiastics in their dioceses to preach the crusade, and to send word to members of the regular clergy, the Franciscan and Dominicans friars, that they should assist in this endeavour. This pattern of organizing crusade propaganda had been established in the middle of the thirteenth century, and it had provided the Church with effective results. The crusade campaigns were not the innovations in the early fourteenth century, but the intensive use of preaching and liturgy in combination during the Hospitallers' passagium campaign was unparalleled.
