warriors. Such an armed pilgrimage was regarded as an acceptable war‚ because it was fought to recapture the places sacred to Christians. Jerusalem had been under Muslim rule since the 7th century‚ but pilgrimages were not cut off until the 11th century‚ when the Seljuk Turks began to interfere with Christian pilgrims. For Christians‚ the very name of Jerusalem made them had visions of the end of time and of the heavenly city. To help rescue the Holy Land fulfilled the ideal of the Christian knight
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friendly material and were very violent. The army that lead the attack was filled with “ten of thousands of peasants‚ nobles‚ and clergy responded to Urban II’s call.”(The First Crusaders PowerPoint). Jerusalem was a holy ground for the Christians and was taken by the Muslims. When the Crusaders entered Jerusalem‚ a bloodbath commenced with different Muslims views‚ Crusaders views‚ and reasons supporting the attack. To understand the reason behind the attacks‚ one must know about each side’s history. “The
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Thomas F. Madden defines the crusade as a “war against the Muslims for the defence of the Christian faith and people.” Although‚ the Christians were successful in the First Crusade in establishing the Kingdom of Jerusalem‚ as Jonathan Riley argues this was particularly because the crusaders faced little opposition from the Muslims. Consequently‚ with the rise of the emir of Mousl and Alepp‚ Imad ad-Din Zengi‚ who called for a jihad against the crusaders resulted in the fall of Edessa in 1144 and
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Empire to be ‘overrun by Humankind’ according to Asbridge.3 The First Crusade was an undoubted success; creating four Crusader States in Outremer against the odds. However roughly one hundred years later a unified Muslim force under Saladin took Jerusalem and the following two crusades were comparatively utter failures. It is thus important to analyse and compare the both the continually fluctuating levels of Muslim unity and the changing mentality of the Franks to determine why and how the First
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the middle ages revolved around what was happening with the Pope and his anticipations for the next Crusade. The focuses of the crusades were ideally to unite the churches to bring back Christian leadership and control in the Holy Land‚ that is‚ Jerusalem. One of the most impacting crusades is known as the fourth Crusade when Innocent III was pope. The fourth crusade became terribly diverted from its original plans and became one of the most tragic and barbaric of all the crusades. When Innocent
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Europe and Saracens ‚ who are present day Muslims. There were a total of nine crusades ‚ the first four being the most notable and the Children’s Crusade being the decline of the conflict. The crusades started in 109A.D around the sacred city of Jerusalem which held significant religious value to both the Christians and Muslims. The Children’s Crusade as initiated because of young peasants in France ‚Germany that were to believe that they could succeed where previous sinful crusades had failure. The
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adverse. Pope Urban also offered an incentive that fighting in the Crusades‚ will bring eternal life. According to Dr. Richard Abels‚ Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont urged the princes of Christendom for an equipped “pilgrimage” to recover Jerusalem from the Muslims. Amid his objectives was the establishment of the Gregorian papacy by conveying the Greek Orthodox Church beneath the papal power. He also made internal alteration his main emphasis was against simony and other clerical manipulations
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Richard the Lionheart and Saladin Richard the Lionheart and Saladin are known as some of the greatest leaders and warriors to fight in The Crusades. The book Warriors of God‚ by James Reston describes these two men throughout their battles in the Third Crusade. Many portrayals of these two men are either ones that make them look like the kindest of any of the Crusaders or some of the meanest‚ most gruesome men to fight. James Reston does a very good job of finding a medium between the two and
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Although a major component of the crusading army were peasants‚ many royal individuals and their armies decided to embark upon the First Crusade ‚ resulting is a big success of the Christendom during the First Crusade‚ known as the Princes Crusade. This sub-part of the Crusade played a major change in the result of the First Crusade‚ due to the mentality of the Christendom becoming more enhanced. For a change‚ the leaders made a plan of what they needed to do‚ where to go‚ and how much food to take
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The Second Temple of Jerusalem became its own period of time which started from the rebuilding of the Temple at around 520 BC- after the first temple was destroyed in 586 BCE by the Babylonians when Jerusalem was conquered- and carried on to 70 CE at the time of its own destruction. Overall‚ this period was filled with a surge of literature and religion as the Hebrew Bible was written‚ as well as the formation of the centrality of law and morality in religion‚ expectations for the future in an apocalyptic
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