Crusades | Definition, History, Map, Significance, & Legacy
2024年11月18日 · Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. The Crusades took place from 1095 until the 16th century, when the advent of Protestantism led to the decline of papal authority.
The Crusades (1095–1291) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Considered at the time to be divinely sanctioned, these campaigns, involving often ruthless battles, are known as the Crusades. At their core was a desire for access to shrines associated with the life and ministry of Jesus, above all the Holy Sepulcher, the church in Jerusalem said to contain the tomb of Christ (2005.100.373.100).
Crusades - Wikipedia
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.
The Crusades (1096–1291) - Encyclopedia.com
In 1095, Urban II received a message from the Byzantine Emperor, Alexius Comnenus (1081–1118), requesting a few hundred knights to aid in his effort to retake territory from the Turks. All Alexius sought was a mercenary force to augment his army; what Urban recruited for him would be quite beyond his expectations or needs.
Crusades - World History Encyclopedia
2018年10月12日 · The Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by popes and Christian western powers to take Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control and then defend those gains. There were eight major official crusades between 1095 and 1270, as well as many more unofficial ones.
The Crusades: A Very Brief History, 1095-1500 - Medievalists.net
2015年3月8日 · In this chapter, I trace the contours of the specific types of violent religious conflict always immanent within the historical structure of medieval war. The crusades, on this account, were artifacts of neither the timeless logic of anarchy nor the feudal mode of production/exploitation.
The Crusades: Causes & Goals - World History Encyclopedia
2018年7月4日 · The Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by Christian powers in order to retake Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control. There would be eight officially sanctioned crusades between 1095 CE and 1270 CE and many more unofficial ones.
The Armies of the Crusades - World History Encyclopedia
2018年11月15日 · The armies of the Crusades (11th-15th centuries CE), which saw Christians and Muslims struggle for control of territories in the Middle East and elsewhere, could involve over 100,000 men on either side who came from all over Europe to form the Christian armies and from all over western Asia and North Africa for the Muslim ones.
The Crusades: A Complete History | History Today
2015年5月5日 · What impact did the success of the First Crusade (1099) have on the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities of the eastern Mediterranean? What was the effect of crusading on the people and institutions of western Europe? How did people record the Crusades and, finally, what is their legacy?
What were the Crusades? - The Crusades - KS3 History - BBC
People who went on the Crusades were motivated by different reasons including the prospect of wealth, freedom or power. Key figures involved in the Crusades included Richard the Lionheart and...