Crusader

justified in doing so and deserve to be avenged. To get this message across, Rabbi Eliezer b. Nathan sheds negative light upon the character and actions of the christian crusaders. In contrast, he portrays the Rhinehard jewish population as innocent and virtuous, who's acts were pertinent in the situation brought forth by the crusaders. Rabbi Eliezer b. Nathan uses words with strong negative context to persuade the audience that the character and actions of the…

The Crusades were a series of wars fought between Christians and Muslims over the holy land of Jerusalem. There were many crusades, but the first three are the most remembered. The outcomes of these wars were varied. The Christians won the first, the Muslims won the second, and the third was ended in a peace treaty. In the First Crusade, the Byzantines were being harmed by the Turks. The Byzantines called for the help of the Catholic Church. For Pope Urban II to get supporters to go to war, he…

Karen Armstrong and Thomas Madden’s respective presentations of the Crusades, seem to present two extreme positions – either the crusaders are intolerant fanatics blindly killing people groups who were never aggressively antagonistic in return; or the Arabs are the fanatics, and the crusaders are selfless soldiers fighting a purely defensive war. Of the two pieces, Armstrong’s analysis of the Crusades is more overtly driven by a modern political agenda, but the belligerent extremes of both…

incoming crusaders had negitive effects on the lands they traversed. The Emperor realized to late he did not want the West 's help, the crusaders could turn on him and greatly outnumbered his army. This is apparent though Alexius ' daughter, she writes “he (Alexius) dreaded their arrival for he knew their irresistible manor of attack,...seemed to disregard their truces readily for any reason that cropped up.” This view point highlights the differences between the West and East Crusaders marched…

that was a few stories tall. But what many people didn’t know, was that was home to a force of knights called the Crusaders. They were valiant and brave, and whenever anyone in Eichenwalde or the surrounding area needed help, they were the first ones to be called. One problem with being so isolated, however, was that they didn’t know that the world was changing around them. The Crusaders, as time passed,…

The crusades were a series of military campaigns carried out between 11th and 15th centuries by the Catholic church against Muslims, pagans, and the opponents of the church (Lock, 2006). Over the past few decades, historians have indulged in the investigation of the occurrence of, and the motivations for the crusades. Some of the motivations for the crusades identified include the need to: capture Jerusalem; free and defend Christian territories; and protect Christians living in non-Christian…

a failure The crusades were a series of battles from western Christians that was fought against muslims and other religious groups to reclaim the city of Jerusalem and to eliminate the threat against the Christians. The Crusades resulted in the crusaders seizing Jerusalem and holding it for only about 90 years. Following the first crusade were 8 other crusade attempts that were completely ineffective. Overall, the crusades were a failure. It only caused tensions between Arabs and Christians to…

Romans. In this essay, I will expand on the importance of the Carolingian Empire and the role they played in the First Crusade, the religious roles that the Arabs played in the Holy Land, as well as the relationship between the Crusaders and the Arabs and how the Crusaders were…

Everyone but Bohemond accepted taking the oath . In May 1097, the Crusaders and their Byzantine allies attacked Nicea (now Iznik, Turkey) which was the Seljuk Turk capital in Anatolia. After capturing the city due to them surrendering in late June, the Crusaders marched on into Anatolia along with the Byzantines and captured the great Syrian city of Antioch in June 1098 despite relations between the leaders of the Byzantine and the Crusaders worsen . After a number of internal struggles over…

Let’s look at each of these factors in turn. In the case of motivation by religion, some historians make the point that Pope Urban II indicated at the Council of Clermont in 1095 that crusaders would be coming to the aid of Christians in the Byzantine Empire. He reported in his speech that the people of Persia, who were actually Turks and not Persians, had taken so much land from the Greek empire that it would take months to walk through…