Essays on Crusades

At the time of the Crusades, the official church had become corrupt and politically motivated. It should be noted, too, that crusaders did not take vows to “go on crusade.” The very term crusade, in English or in any other language, is a much later invention. What we call “crusades,” contemporaries knew as “pilgrimages” or…

Geoffrey the Bastard, who in future would be the father of REH’s rage-filled adventurer Cormac Fitzgeoffrey, was in trouble. He was just fourteen, and his prospects for growing old enough to father anybody didn’t look sanguine. His father, William, who had been among the King of Sicily’s greatest war-captains, was dead in battle with the…

The eastern Byzantine and Islamic worlds. The growing tension in the east soon appeared in an attack against the Byzantine empire with their need of help soon following. The crusades then began with religious promises and other opportunities availTABLE to the crusaders. And even after all of those events the west still prospered in certain…

Were the crusades worthwhile for the people of Europe? Religious wars, known prominently by the name of the crusades, were a sequence of battles between Christian and Muslim forces for control of the Holy Lands, in particular, Jerusalem. The battles occurred between the years of 1096 and 1291. Christian forces believed it was the place…

The Crusades by Henry Treece: A Book Analysis             The year 1096 A.D. is remembered in history as the beginning of the Crusades: the attempt of Christendom to regain the Holy Land from the hands of the “infidel” Moslems. That year also marked the height of the struggle between Islam and Christianity; the Cross versus…

Saladin was a prominent figure in the medieval history. He was the most famous of the Muslim military heroes in the world. “His achievements were not limited to the military sphere alone, but achieved across the political, diplomatic and administrative arenas. ”(Bosworth Clifford 2). The explanation of his youth and background, how he became such…

The Crusades were a series of political and military conquests led by the Catholic Church to gain back the Holy Lands. There were four crusades of the Middle Ages and the Children’s Crusade. The launching of the Crusades changed the role of the church as it became a military system and the church’s relationship with…