Sinopsis

Several centuries ago, the idea of driving out of Jerusalem its infidel
inhabitants was suggested to a mad ecclesiastic. A shorn and dehumanized
monk of Picardy, who had performed many a journey to that fallen city, who
had been mocked and derided there as a follower of the Nazarene, whose heart
burned beneath the wrongs and indignities which had been so freely heaped
upon the head of himself and his countrymen, determined to arouse a storm
which should send its lightnings to gleam along the streets, and roll its deep
thunder to shake the hills which in speechless majesty stand around the city of
God.