Fourth Crusade

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…

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…

Peter the Hermit and his People’s Crusade was an especially significant moment in European Christianity and a defining moment of the High Middle Ages, not only in the sense that it demonstrates how essential religion was in the lives of people at the time, but also in how it set the stage for the divisions; between people and their beliefs, between the West and the East and between Christianity and all other faiths. In the year 1095 Pope Urban II addressed the Council of Clermont in response to…

There were many battles between three clans. They stated with a BASH! Or a BOOM! But the biggest fight was between the muslims and christians but is still going on. This is what happened in the Medieval Ages. The culture that gained the most during the middle ages is the christians because they had jerusalem. According to the author of the cities of light video, They stopped every attack and when got land sold it for peace. Some may argue that the Christians suffered greatly during the…

The Knights Templar collapse had many reasons behind it when the pope officially dissolved the order in 1312. The collapse of the knights Templar began when the third crusade concluded also known as the Battle of Hattin which ended Christian rule of Jerusalem. Also, the charges made by King Phillippe against the order of knights Templar for heresies against their faith eventually dissolved the order. The battle of Hattin is known as the worst defeats in the history of the Knights Templar falling…

a big effect in the Holy War, more commonly known as the Crusades. The Crusades were a series of eight religious wars between the Christians and Muslims. At the time, Muslims had control of Jerusalem, the Holy Land. However, the Christians wanted control of it, so they tried to recapture it, thus marking the start of the Crusades. The primary goal was to gain control of Jerusalem. Nevertheless, the goal was changed by the end of the Crusades. The new goal of the Christians was to eliminate…

The crusades are an example of this power, with over five major crusades and numerous other, smaller crusades that the Church commanded. The crusades started in 1095 when Pope Urban the second encouraged Christian kings to win back Jerusalem from the Seljuk Muslims who had taken the land in 1065 and had been killing Christian…

highlights the occasional question within the article. This text was useful for providing the reader with background knowledge about each concept covered, as well as identified key roles that leaders played during the crusades such as Richard I and his unification of the third crusade, which in turn brought it success. However,…