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If Pope Urban had chosen to speak of the strategic or military advantage, the rulers he addressed still would have undertaken the Crusades. Instead, he speaks about religion, which he would have no reason to do so if it were not his true motivation. To symbolize this religious journey, the crusaders wore a cross on their armor, as recorded by the German monk Ekkehard (Doc 7). The religious journey of knights was lauded by other religious figures as well. St. Bernard, an abbot in Clairvaux, expressed respect and envy for them, stating “[Bernard] wishes that he might fight the good fight.” (Doc 5). St. Bernard, being a religious figure and biased towards Christianity, supports the cause, showing that it was seen as a religious war as well. Jewish historian Solomon bar Samson also denotes the crusades as a raid with theological roots, stating that the Europeans “seek[ing] their house of idolatry” also attacked the Jews due to religious faith, and wished to either convert or kill them (Doc

The crusades that occurred from the 11th through to the 13th centuries were a series of a number of military campaigns. The Papacy sanctioned these campaigns. Originally, crusades were Catholic endeavors that were undertaken to recapture the Holy Lands (McKay et al., 2014). However, through time, some of the wars were against the other non-catholic Christians. The wars that were directed against non-Catholics were inclusive of the fourth crusade, which was against the Constantinople. The Aligensian crusade was

Robert the Monk’s history of the First Crusade, Historia Iherosolimitana (HI), was composed several years after the events it records. There is also no evidence making him an eyewitness for the anything he transcribes except for the Council of Clermont. Robert is generally accepted as a valuable source for the First Crusade as his story is based on the Gesta Francorum and he was commissioned by his abbot to offer a new more exciting account of the crusades.1 Robert’s account includes a number of themes as he describes different people the Crusaders encounter. In the history of the First Crusade, Robert the Monk uses his description of the Muslims

There are many accounts of that day in November, 1095. Some were written by monks, others by bishops, and even a few by warriors themselves. Historians are constantly asking, "What exactly did Pope Urban II say at the council of Clermont to persuade Christians to set forth on such a difficult venture as the Crusades?" One man, an early 12th century cleric named Fulcher of Chartres wrote perhaps the best historical chronicle of the events at Clermont and the speech of Urban II.<br><br>Fulcher begins his account with a prologue that states how blessed the journeymen of the Crusades were to take up such a conquest. He follows this by speaking on the Council of Clermont. Fulcher describes Pope Urban II and what he heard was happening to the

Zeynep Bozyigit Rossignol World History H 15 March 2024 The motive of the Crusades, a series of military expeditions by European Christians in the Middle Ages, has long been subject to debate. A significant population of Europe took on a journey to Jerusalem over the course of 200 years, each driven by a complex intersection of political, economic, and religious motivations. Having touched the lives of millions, the impact of the nine Holy Wars in European history is still evident in the modern world today. While some argue that Catholic religious devotion was the driving force of millions into the Holy Land, a deeper look into medieval Europe reveals that the people were primarily motivated by hopes of political and/or economic profit from

This paper will explore the various impacts the crusades had on medieval history.  Starting with a brief explanation of the crusades themselves the paper will go into detail in regards to the aforementioned impacts, which range from banking to changes in social perception. The Crusades, which took place between 1095 to 1487, were a series of military campaigns sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church. Their creation can be credited to the 1095 conflict between the Byzantine empire and the Seljuk Turks after the latter took over Anatolia, which originally belonged to the Byzantines. Unable to fend off the Turkish forces by their own power, the Byzantine Emperor of the time, Alexios I, reached out to Pope Urban II (r. 1088-1099) for aid.

Patrick Geary’s “Readings in Medieval History” contains four accounts of the invasion of the Middle East by the Europeans in 1095 A.D. These accounts all cite different motives for the first crusade, and all the accounts are from the perspective of different sides of the war. The accounts all serve to widen our perspective, we hear from the Christian and Middle Eastern side of the conflict. Fulcher of Chartres claims, Pope Urban the Second urged all Christians to intervene in the “East” at the council of Claremont, saying it was a sign of “Strength of good will”. (Readings in Medieval History, Geary, page 396).

Accordingly, Memoirs of the Fourth Crusade has been reviewed vigorously over the past century and central among these reviews is a genuine acceptance of Villehardouin s authenticity and accountability with respect to his

The brief campaign of the thirteen-century Children’s crusade was not technically a crusade in the sense that medieval Europeans understood the term and lasted only a few months during the year 1212. It lacked Papal sanction and its participants marched without the customary indulgences granted to those engaged in warfare to defend the Faith. Uncharacteristic as it was, the Children’s Crusade was a revealing chapter in medieval history, as it exemplified the depths of crusading zeal along with the unrestrained behavior of which enthusiasm and faith are capable. The children’s crusade was nothing less than a destructive movement that preyed on those in its paths, much like the earlier crusades had done. It was during the late august of 1212, that rows of zealous children and the priest guiding them had stood on the dockside of Marseilles awaiting for a parting of the Mediterranean to permit passage to the holy land. The children marched unarmed, in some notion of converting the Muslims seems to have taken place of the usual crusaders zeal for battle.

Rich in delightful episodes and dramatic events, spread over two centuries and three continents, the Crusades were one of the fascinating events of Muslim-Christian encounters. The Crusades constitute a series of almost two-century-long military campaigns (1095-1291) conducted by the Christians of Western Europe against the Muslims in the land of Palestine and the eastern Mediterranean coastal strip. The Christian aim was to wrest the Holy Land, Jerusalem, from the Muslims. Annoyed, angered, frightened, and disgusted by the presence of uninvited aliens in the midst of their cultures, the Muslim response to the Crusades was initially one of intermittent, unorganised, and disrupted by a preoccupation with internal problems. Later Muslims, however,

The Crusades were one of the most prominent events in Western European history; they were not discrete and unimportant pilgrimages, but a continuous stream of marching Western armies (Crusaders) into the Muslim world, terminating in the creation and eventually the fall of the Islamic Kingdoms. The Crusades were a Holy War of Roman Christianity against Islam, but was it really a “holy war” or was it Western Europe fighting for more land and power? Through Pope Urban II and the Roman Catholic Church’s actions, their proposed motivations seem unclear, and even unchristian. Prior to the Crusades, Urban encouraged that Western Europe fight for their religion but throughout the crusades the real motivations shone though; the Crusaders were power

The Crusades hold a place in the canon of Western history as valiant wars against the infidel in the East, motivated by an unparalleled pious zeal. Whilst revisions to this history have considered more mundane and ordinary motives, such as a want for land or an attempt to reinforce the Peace of God movement, there is something to be said of the religious motivations of the crusaders. The words ‘conquest’ and ‘conversion’ seem ideologically charged – with conquest being what is done by temporal rulers to physical land and people, and conversion being what is done to the spiritual self, by someone who does not have anything material to gain from the action. However, it can be argued that these lines can be blurred; I wish to present the case of conquest being religiously charged, and the idea that any subsequent conversion is of little importance. By examining the geographical targets of various crusaders, I will conclude that they were more interested in conquest than conversion: but this was not necessarily for earthly reasons alone.

The Crusades were a movement of broken military fights in the years from 1096 to 1487, approved by various Popes. Amid these circumstances Islam and Christianity were the more well known religions and their perspectives of religion contrasted from various perspectives. This brought about strain and division between the two. The Pope conveyed a call for kindred Christians to go along with him against the Muslims in war. This was the begin of the Crusades. One of the Pope 's primary objectives was to guarantee access to the Holy Land that was under Muslim control. Another of his objectives was to rejoin the Eastern and Western branches of Christendom, segregated after their split in 1054, and develop himself as pioneer of the United Church. The devotees of these gatherings where brisk to join for what they believed was for their God. The subject of this paper is to show what drove the general population to join and stay in the battle.

A major turning point in Medieval history were the Crusades. The Crusades were a series of wars fought between the Christian Europeans and the Muslim Turks, which occurred between the years of 1096 to 1272. In this Holy War the Christians goal was to obtain the Holy Land from the Turks, in which they did not succeed. Although the Christians did not meet their goal, many positives did come out of their attempt. Due to the reason that they did not meet their goal, yet numerous positives came out of their effort, many refer to this as a successful failure.

Late in the year of 1095 Pope Urban announced on Tuesday, November 27 that he would hold a public session to make a great announcement. This was the beginning of what was to be the First Crusade . After having painted a real grim or somber picture the Pope made his appeal. He thought that western Christendom should march to the rescue of the East. Rich and poor alike should go and they should leave off slaying each other and instead fight a great war. Supposedly they thought it was God will and that God would lead them and Take care of them. During his speech Cries of "Dues le wolt! -- "God wills it!" - Interrupted his speech. Just after the Pope ended his speech the bishop of Le Puy fell to his knees and asked permission to join the "Holy Expedition." Hundreds crowded up to later follow his example.