Philippe de Mézières writes the Order of the Passion
1393
The aged French statesman, disillusioned by Western Christendom's failure to unite against the Ottoman advance, drafted proposals for a new ecumenical crusading order combining monastic rigor with diplomatic persuasion. His writings circulated among Burgundian and French courtiers, inspiring much admiration and no concrete expeditions. The age of the crusade was definitively over, surviving only as nostalgic literature.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.