Albigensian Crusade

Many people do not know much about Spain 's history. However, like a lot of European countries that had to go through finding a nationality and trying to keep it from other countries. At one point in Spain’s history find their self-identity and take back their country from foreign invaders. Also, there were some tension between the Spanish and the Muslims that were living in Spain at the time. This could have been the domino effect that lead into the Reconquista. Here I am going to be discussing…

In the early middle ages, a network of mutual obligations was the glue of the society. Powerful local lords divided their landholding among lesser lords. These lesser lords, or vassals, pledged service and loyalty to the greater lord. This system was implemented due to the Vikings, Muslims and Magyars. The powerful lords were the most powerful and influential in society, they were also called dukes and counts. The powerful lords had vassals, vassals can become other people’s vassals. Peasants…

While there are differences between each society due to differences in customs and government, the West cares more about power than it does peace, resulting in events such as the War of Crusades, the Cold War, and 9/11. Because the West to this day deems themselves democratic, despite their part in, ignoring their part in imperialism and colonialism, there is this belief of the Islamic world being a threat to society, first because of…

follow into present time or long enough to make a difference. Event such as wars and death shaped the world people live in today, from decisions that affected all kinds of lives and the future of those people. Events such as the Bubonic plague, The Crusades, and Christianity. These events didn’t have to be good but they were significant enough to change how things happened to the people of today. The ideas and new advancements that these events brought to humans, and even catastrophe. The…

Religion was and is very important to humanity’s culture, politics, and daily life. It is the foundation for all we believe in and was especially so back in the Middle Ages when science was only starting to be acceptable. During the Middle Ages, between 600 and 1450 A.D, Europe saw Islam make its way into Sspain and the dramatic change brought about by the Christian Schism of 1054 CE. However, there certainly were ideals, like the Roman Catholic Church, that were left relatively unscaved by the…

The Crusades are often one of the most romanticized periods by the common population due to popular films and shows depicting the holy war in a much more heroic light. With the mighty Christian army taking the fight to the savage Muslims who greedily talk their holy land of Jerusalem. Or in some other cases the barbaric Christian army that unprovoked attacks the wise peace loving Muslims. Thus, leading to a ton of misconceptions about the crusades, there are four myths that professor Crawford a…

The crusades began in 1095. Every body wanted to take over Jerusalem, the holy city. It was 9 different fights between europeans christians and Muslims. They were very bad wars a lot of people died and there was a lot of blood. That's why the crusades were negative. Pope Urban the second started the crusades. They started because the Christians wanted to get Jerusalem back so they tried to take it from the Muslims and keep it for their own. The crusades were negative because there a lot of…

In Islamic history, upon the death of Muhammad, his followers were faced with the decision of who should take his place as the leader of Islam. This leadership position was called the caliph. The empires of the caliphates in the Middle East began and expanded with imperial conquest, actively and passionately practice the conversion of non-believers to Islam, and ended with destructive civil wars. The empires started and expanded using imperial conquest. After the death of Mu’awiya, the Umayyad…

of the Roman pontiff and that the popes were responsible for the right order in the world, which could only be obtained through righteous Christian violence directed by the papacy, forms the basis for the Crusades. What must be stressed is the fact that the appeal for the First Crusade made by Pope Urban II can be neither isolated, nor minimized from the host of conflicts and clashes with European secular rulers and its quest for religious…

The portrayal of the Crusades in the film Kingdom of Heaven is above all an oversimplified, romanticised, version of a very serious part of history. The four main Crusades were nothing to reduce in importance, each one left thousands dead and only fueled the divide between Christians and Muslims. To begin the characters themselves were real people but in the film they are severely altered: Balian is the combination of several historical figures (such as his own brother), Sybilla was actually…