Cloyes

Sadly, Obama's notion that he will accomplish great results without the cooperation of the Washington establishment makes as much sense as Stephan of Cloyes.

Super Tuesday, Mitt Romney, and the Children's Crusade 2008

Stephan of Cloyes, on the other hand, made no plans and believed his band would conquer Jerusalem by words, not ships, arms or arrows.

Super Tuesday, Mitt Romney, and the Children's Crusade 2008

There is a legend that in 1212, a young boy named Stephan of Cloyes had such a mouth on him that he was able to talk the children of Europe into a Crusade to recapture the Holy Land.

Super Tuesday, Mitt Romney, and the Children's Crusade 2008

The difference between them is that Hillary is a realist and Obama is a dreamer of the Stephan of Cloyes type.

Super Tuesday, Mitt Romney, and the Children's Crusade 2008

Stephen of Cloyes, the young shepherd who began the movement, claimed to have been visited by the Lord disguised as a poor pilgrim.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

The chronicler of Laon believed that the movement's main problem lay less with the crowds than with the children themselves and particularly with their leader, Stephen of Cloyes:

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

De Janssens, G. "Etienne de Cloyes et les croisades d'enfants au XIIIe siècle."

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

The French contingent, made up of poor children and led by the young shepherd Stephen of Cloyes, gathered near Vendôme in May and traveled through the countryside in a procession, singing and carrying crosses.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

De Janssens, "Etienne de Cloyes et les croisades d'enfants au XIIIe siècle," Bulletin de la société dunoise 90 (1891): 109 — 33, and G.Z. Gray's grossly over-romanticized The Children's Crusade (1870; reprint, New York, 1972).

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Note 3: See the work of Gary Dickson — "Stephen of Cloyes, Philip Augustus, and the Children's Crusade of 1212," in Journeys toward God: Pilgrimages and Crusade, ed.B. N. Sargent-Baur (Kalamazoo, Mich., 1992), 83 — 105 and "La genèse de la croisade des enfants (1212)," BEC 153 (1995): 53 — 102.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005