Essays on Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The most known Crusades were the groups in the Eastern Mediterranean aimed at recovering the Holy Land from Muslim rule. At the time of the early Crusades the word…

The Crusades were both a success and a failure. It was a success in that the First Crusade sacked and pillaged the great cities of Antioch and Jerusalem, winning the great religious cities of Christianity. Despite their prizes, the next several Crusades were deemed failures…

The Crusades, or the Holy War, were deemed as male-oriented. Males were appealed to by the popes to join the efforts and were the ones who advocated for the Crusades themselves. This raises the question, what were the roles of women in respect to the…

The idea that tolerance existed in the Crusade Ages seems to contradict the notion of the Crusades. The Crusades seemed aimed at protecting their interest through eliminating those individuals that did not agree with, or hindered, their goals. For instance, the First Crusade traveled to…