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Dear Jessalynn (if I may), It would be great to have some information on the 13thc. cult of Peter the Hermit; I've been collecting 13thc. references to him in connection with the crusades. I can't remember--although I should!--if Jacques de Vitry refers to Peter in his 'Historia Occidentalis', does he? People seem to forget that he was venerated as a 'beatus'. And don't you think that if he founded a house for canons-regular, he fits into the mold of the educated, disgruntled, reformist, hermit/wandering preacher, future monastic founder, so 'typical' of the late-11thc.? (The fact that he led a crusading force becomes almost an irrelevance!) The portrait of Peter the Hermit by Guibert of Nogent leaves much to be desired; is it a caricature? I'll be happy to look up the Premonstratensian references; and post them. Gary Dickson University of Edinburgh %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%