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Why They Became Crusaders
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Why They Became Crusaders
This paper examines the motivations of those who joined the Crusades to secure Jerusalem as a Christian state.
1,726 words (approx. 6.9 pages) |
7 sources |
MLA | 2009
Paper Summary:
The paper explains that the Crusades were a procession of religious conflicts assembled by Christian Europe against Muslim and Pagan societies to gain control of the Holy Land. The paper explores what motivated people to become crusaders and discusses how many wanted to attain penance, escape the economic despair in Europe, obtain the status of a martyr or strive for women's liberation. The paper therefore shows how the Crusaders were all motivated by individual ideas.From the Paper:
"The Crusades were a procession of religious conflicts assembled by Christian Europe against Muslim and Pagan societies to gain control of the Holy Land. It was Pope Urban II that encouraged the mission of the first Crusade. In the ancient city of Auvergne he "launched his appeal not only to the pilgrims gathered there but to the whole Christian world, to go on a still greater pilgrimage, to drive the infidel from the Holy Land." Crusaders came from all over Europe to pursue this goal. There was an emphasis on taking up the cross and fighting for penance, but this later changed through the course of Crusading history. The internal conflicts among the Christians and political alliances with non-Christian powers led some of the Crusade expeditions to divert from their original aim of religious liberation."Sample of Sources Used:
- Gore, Terry, L. Neglected Heroes: Leadership and War in the Early Medieval Period. London: Paeger Publishers, 1995.
- McLeod, Enid. History in the Making: The Crusades. London: The Camelot Press Lmt, 1960.
- Phillips, Jonathan. The Crusades 1095-1197. London: Paerson Education, 2002.
- Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The Crusades A History. Second Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
- Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The First Crusaders, 1095-1131. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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"Why They Became Crusaders" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Why-They-Became-Crusaders/113470>
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