CH. 9 Flashcards
What was the historical context of the time of the crusades?
- the middle ages/medieval times
- feudalism
What was Europe’s population broken into?
1) clergy
2) nobility
3) peasantry
How did Islam become a threat?
- rise of the seljuk turks and their defeat of the byzantine army in the battle of manzikert
What are the two factors of the church wanting unification?
- the threat of islam
- the heretical situation involving Europe
What were the crusades and military orders the answer to? What was the inquisition the answer to?
- crusades and military orders = unification of Europe and external threats
- inquisition = internal threats
What were the crusades?
- wars of religious character
- a series of 8 expansive military expedition taken by Christians between 1096 to 1270 in the Holy Land and Spain against Muslim expansion
What parts of the Christian world did Islamic forces seize?
- Palestine, Egypt, Asia Minor, North Africa
How was Muslim expansion halted from europe?
- Charles Martel’s defense of WE and Byzantine’s of the East
Who organized the first crusade?
In 1095, Pope Urban II held a council in France to organize the first crusade as an assault in defense of Christian europe
What did the Crusades combine?
- the concept of a defensive war with religious pilgrimage
- seen as acts of religious devotion by the Christians
What were the 2 spiritual and 3 temporal motivations behind the Crusades
spiritual:
1) indulgences
2) prolonged penance
temporal:
1) the reduction of taxes
2) dissolving of debt
3) protection of the crusader’s families
Whose preaching inspired thousands to join the crusade, sometimes convincing entire parishes to set out to east?
St. bernard of Clairvaux
Who else traveled cities preaching for a crusade?
Peter the Hermit of Amiens
Which crusade was considered the best organized? How was this crusade organized?
- the first crusade
- armies divided into 4 groups to meet at Constantinople and began their campaign in 1097
What are the significant events in the first crusade?
- besieged Nicaea
- took Antioich
- Jersualm fell