Essays on Crusades

In November of 1095 for 10 days pope Urban II held the council of Clermont at Auvergne which culminated in the pope calling onto the Frankish knights for armed expedition into the Levant with the aim of freeing Jerusalem and the tomb of Christ from…

Lifted in a Mystic Manner The Gothic Cathedral of Notre Dame was built between 1163-1235. Between 1170-1270 more than 500 Gothic Churches were built in France. The reason for the high ceilings and slender columns in the churches was to make it seem as if…

The Crusades were a series of war where the Christians fought the Seljuk Turks during 1095, as the Turks came and took control of Jerusalem. They then persecuted the Christian pilgrims who tried to visit Jerusalem; the beloved “Holy Land” to them. The Byzantine ruler…

The Crusades were serious about religious and political wars that were fought between the years 1096 and 1291. They fought these wars for control of Holly land. Pope Urban II which was the leader of the catholic church started the first Crusade which was the…

The Crusades were a number of religious wars between Christians and Muslims. They were started because both groups wanted to keep a site that is considered sacred or holy to them. The Crusades took place between 1096 and 1291. These gory, dangerous, and ruthless battles…

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…