Essays on Crusades

The series of wars in which European Christians sought to take, by any means, the holy places under Muslim control between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries AD, came to be known as The Crusades. Various compositions have been written about these wars, but The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by francophone writer Amin Maalouf seeks to…

This paper will discuss how Jonathan Riley-Smith’s book The First Crusaders 1095-1131 evidences a different reasoning for the time and cause of the First Crusade. In high school, the brief mention our instructor gave of The Crusades we were taught that it was either for financial gain or for the expanding of a Noble’s lands….

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…

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…

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…

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…

There the mercenary Venetians refused us ships and it sickened my very entrails to see our chiefs go down on their knees to those merchant swine. They promised us ships at last but they set such a high price that we could not pay. None of us had any money, else we had never started…

1. How did religion influence the Magna Carta? King John of England had unlimited power and was taking large amounts of money without consulting his nobles. Magna Carta is a document that was created to stop the King from abusing his nobles. According to this document anything related to God is exempt from this rule….

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…