LIBERTY UNIVERSITY THE THEOLOGICAL RATIONALE OF THE CRUSADERS A THESIS SUBMITTED TO JOHN LANDERS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY 1 TO UNDERSTAND THE GOD-VIEW OF THE CRUSADERS IN ITS HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT BY MARCUS MARROQUIN LYNCHBURG‚ VIRGINIA DECEMBER 2011 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 Chapter 1. Preaching the Crusades
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That October‚ the Turks crushed Conrad’s forces at Dorylaeum.”(history.com) The Crusaders combined their forces and attacked Damascus‚ but were utterly destroyed by the Muslim forces. General Shirkuh‚ commander of Mosul’s army‚ captured Cairo in 1169 with the aid of his nephew‚ Saladin. Shirkuh unfortunately died soon after this
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Yusuf ibn Ayyub. Salah al-Din was an honorary title that translates as “Righteousness of Faith.” His father‚ Ayyub‚ and his uncle‚ Shirkuh‚ were both generals in the army of Zengi‚ the Muslim leader who captured the County of Edessa from the crusaders in 1144. When Zengi died in 1146‚ Saladin moved with his father and uncle to Damascus in Syria‚ the main city of Zengi’s empire. Zengi’s son‚ Nur-ad-din‚ had taken over Damascus after his father’s death‚ and Saladin began work for Nur-ad-din‚ following
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today have many questions‚ the biggest question is‚ did the Crusaders had a positive or negative impact on the world. It is very obvious that they had a negative impact on the world. The reasons why they had a negative impact because they started religious hate and they failed their one goal‚ conquering the holy land. The crusaders made the holy churches split into two‚ they will never get back together. Document 4 states that the Crusaders stormed the city of Constantinople. When they attacked their
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The Jews were persecuted and slaughtered in the first crusade due to the religious rationale that the Crusaders were able to justify. The Jews were perceived as the murderers of Christ‚ low their involvement as bankers‚ and infidels for settling in with the Seldjuk culture. These major “vices” qualified the Jews to be slaughtered by the Crusaders through the Just War written St. Augustine of Hippo. St. Augustine of Hippo’s work on the Just War was a vastly important document in the rationalization
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Although The Poem of The Cid was written during the Spanish crusades‚ The Cid could not be further from the heroic crusader ideal‚ as established‚ for example‚ in The Song of Roland. Roland was so passionate‚ so convinced of the rightness of his beliefs that he was willing to demonstrate all of his heroic qualities in the pursuit of achieving martyrdom as posthumous evidence of his devotion and courage. Charlemagne and God himself bless Roland’s mission to kill as many heathens as he can. The Cid
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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 first of the Crusades
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conventional‚ secondly that a more positive reaction was drawn from the laity (due to the ideas surrounding Jerusalem)‚ thirdly‚ that the original message of crusading had changed because of the horrible experiences of the first crusaders‚ fourth‚ that due to these experiences the crusaders developed their own concept of what a crusade was‚ and lastly‚ that these ideas were refined by (religious) writers and turned into an acceptable form of theology. Riley-Smith makes excellent points about the crusade;
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of Egypt and Syria‚ and founded the Ayyubid dynasty. He led Muslim and Arab opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant. At the height of his power‚ his sultanate included Egypt‚ Syria‚Mesopotamia‚ Kurdistan‚ Hejaz‚ and Yemen. Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi‚ the hero of hundreds of battles‚ was the person who for twenty years braved the storm of the Crusaders and ultimately pushed back the combined forces of Europe which had come to swarm the Holy Land. The world has hardly witnessed
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as the help that the Christians received from the Byzantium emperor‚ Alexius Muslim disunity was an important factor which lead to the success of the First Crusade. This is because the fact that the Muslim army were divided made it easier for the crusaders to attack and capture Jerusalem. An example of this was at Antioch. The Christians had taken Antioch from the leadership of Yagi Siyan in June 1098. This was because of a traitor within Antioch‚ Yagi Siyan the leader sent out a message to the other
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