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- The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.
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4 days ago · The First Crusade (1096–1099) was a pivotal military expedition initiated by Western European Christians in response to Pope Urban II’s call at the Council of Clermont in 1095. Aimed at reclaiming Jerusalem and other holy sites in the Levant from Muslim control, the Crusade was driven by a combination of religious zeal, desire for adventure ...
2 days ago · Roman Catholicism - Crusades, Papacy, Doctrine: The increased authority of the papacy and the relative decline in the power of the emperor became clear in the unforeseen emergence of the Crusades as a major preoccupation of Europe.
4 days ago · 14th-century miniature of the Second Crusade battle from the Estoire d'Eracles. The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.
1 day ago · Crusading movement. The church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. This is a site of Christian pilgrimage built where Christian Roman authorities pinpointed the purported location of Jesus' burial and resurrection in Jerusalem in 325. [1] One of the objectives of the Crusades was to free the Holy Sepulchre from Muslim control.
2 days ago · The Crusades weren’t started by Christians or the Church. Instead, they were slow, measured, moral, reasonable and rational responses to violent and unchecked Islamic invasion and colonization. If anything, the Crusades were supremely holy when compared to the egomaniacal, selfish and hate-filled wars started by atheists between the 18th and ...
2 days ago · The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as the Crusade Kingdom, was a Crusader state that was established in the Levant immediately after the First Crusade. It lasted for almost two hundred years, from the accession of Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 until the fall of Acre in 1291.
5 days ago · The main causes of the Crusades were: The Muslim Turks’ oppression of Jews and Christians in the regions they controlled contributed to the growing sense of religious and political tension that ultimately led to the Crusades. The Byzantine Empire’s (predominantly Eastern Orthodox) request for military assistance against the expanding Muslim ...
