The crusades were produced by the religious and military spirit which prevailed in Europe during the middle ages.
In an age in which some value is set upon an opinion of the crusades, it will be first asked, if the wars of the Crusades were just.
The return of the Crusaders, and the account of their conquests, excited great enthusiasm, and renewed the eagerness for crusades and pilgrimages among the nations of the West.
The zeal for crusadesbegan at this time to abate, and several ambassadors returned to Jerusalem without having been able to arouse the enthusiasm of the western Christians.
The leaders of the crusades still thought no more about setting forward on their march to Jerusalem, and the autumn advanced without their being engaged in any expedition of importance.
From the period of the first crusades the Pisans and the Genoese had constantly sent vessels to the seas of the East; and their fleets had aided the Christians in several expeditions against the Mussulmans.
A writer who has preceded us by two centuries and who calls the history of the Crusades a right royal history, is surprised at the silence preserved to his time.
The Crusades have, however, a deeper significance than any isolated personages or events, however picturesque or imposing, ever possess.
The epoch of the Crusades is important from the standpoint of either school.
Either the English took less part in the crusades than we generally imagine, or a French historian does not mete them due honour; the archbishop of Canterbury is the only name clearly English in this list.
The imagination of the most indifferent must be struck with the instances of heroism which the history of the crusades abounds in.
All the French historians who have spoken of the crusades have translated Malle Villa by Malleville.
The crusades instigated by Peter—First determined on at the council of Clermont, convoked by Urban II.
Were the crusades the only means by which western Europe was brought in contact with Moslem civilization?
Since the time of the crusades these luxuries, after having been brought overland by water to Mediterranean ports, had been distributed by Venetian and Genoese merchants throughout Europe.
Like the conquests of Alexander the Great, the crusadesopened up a new world.
In their widest aspect the crusadesmay be regarded as a renewal of the age-long contest between East and West, in which the struggle of Greeks and Persians and of Romans and Carthaginians formed the earlier episodes.
The crusades vastly increased the wealth of Venice, for she provided the ships in which troops and supplies went to the Holy Land and she secured the largest share of the new eastern trade.
The literature of the period of the Crusades (wars in which the Bohemians took a considerable part) possessed, in many respects, an international character.
The crusades were a mistake from the very beginning," Ugolini went on.
But history could not be undone, and with the help of the Tartars, might this not be the one great crusade that would make any more crusades unnecessary?
Since the Crusades began, many of your countrymen have passed through Trebizond.
He has preached the crusades in magnificent cathedrals, and crossed stormy seas in his frail bark.
The period of the Crusades was the heroic age of chivalry.
In all the days from the time of the Crusades to the end of the Napoleonic Wars the changes in living effected were less, both in scope and importance, than have taken place in the century since Napoleon was sent to Saint Helena.
In a sense the Crusades were an outward manifestation of the great change in thinking and ideals which had begun sometime before in western Europe.
It began during the latter part of the ninth century and the early part of the tenth, reached its maximum greatness during the period of the Crusades (twelfth century), and passed out of existence by the sixteenth.
The history of the crusades we do not need to trace.
SEE LIST OF MAPS)] But while the Crusades were still dragging along a weary and hopeless warfare under St. Louis of France and Prince Edward of England, discovery began again in the Atlantic.
Triple Alliance of England, Flanders, and Portugal, which had been fostered by the Crusades and by trade and family politics.
The Crusadeswithout and the policy of statesmen within, we may fairly say, made the Portuguese ready to lead the expansion of Christendom, made possible the work of Henry the Navigator.
Before the Crusades of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the scientific geography of Christendom, as we have seen, was mainly a borrowed thing.
It may with safety be affirmed that such music as existed among the people of England at the time of the Norman Conquest was not only considerably affected by that event, but still more, probably, by the Crusades not long after.
The dream that led to the Crusades is the one that has most appealed to the imagination of the world; but it was only one of many.
We may say with Gibbon, that the Crusades were at once a cause and an effect of chivalry.
Under these circumstances the crusades were hardly less a cause of terror to the Greeks than were the advances of the Turks themselves, and tended to widen rather than to heal the unhappy breach between the Latin and Greek Churches.
Since the last of the Crusades there have been no independent Armenians.
At the period of the Crusades the Armenians founded a kingdom in Cilicia and aided the Crusaders.
By taking part in the Crusades the knight could best find a field in which he might give free play to all the noble sentiments which animated him.
In the twelfth century the custom began to be common for the lord, who was frequently for long periods absent on the Crusades or at war, to lease some of his land to tenants, instead of farming it all through bailiffs.
It was to the Crusades that chivalry owed its religious character.
And as the Crusades sanctified the warlike feats of the knight, his worship of the Virgin sanctified that devotion to the ladies which was so distinguishing a feature of chivalry.
But the crusades in which the church attempted to wrest the holy sepulchre from Turkish hands, were scarcely more productive of famines than its persecuting periods when mankind lost hope in themselves and the future.
But the Crusades were unsuccessful, and so the question of ownership of land outside of Europe never came up until Prince Henry sent out his discoverers.
Ever since the time of the Crusades it was recognized as right that any European Christian ruler might seize the land and property of any Asiatic infidel.
Footnote 145] The presence of bishops and priests among the soldiery impressed on the Crusades a religious stamp favorable to the enthusiasm and piety of the combatants, and corrective of the evils which never fail to follow the camp.
At the close of the Crusades the nobles began to learn their proper place.
The pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and the crusadesin the eleventh and the twelfth centuries, had a most striking effect on religious art, though this effect was not fully evolved till a century later.
The Crusadesmade the people dissatisfied with the conditions that had prevailed so long in Europe, and this fact alone gave an impetus to the New Learning.
Macaulay's Horatius gives a deeper impression of Roman patriotism than almost anything in pure history can; the various aspects of the Crusades are vividly shown by W.
Every great movement which has widened the geographical outlook of a people, such as the Crusades in the Middle Ages, or the colonization of the Americas, has applied an intellectual and economic stimulus.
It was an idea of purely spiritual import which directed the century-long movement of the Crusades toward Jerusalem, half Latinized the Levant, and widened the intellectual horizon of Europe.
Such was the effect of the Crusades in the twelfth century, and of the foundation of the Mendicant Orders in the thirteenth.
This had been erected for poor pilgrims by the merchants of Amalfi before the Crusades began.
Indulgences had been so freely scattered in attempts to promote the Crusades that a craving for them had been created.
The cessation of the Crusades had largely increased the crowds of pilgrims to Rome, until in 1299 there awoke an expectation of special spiritual privileges in connection with the end of the century.
It was no slight loss to the Emperor that he had been the chief opponent of the Pope and the reformers, and that in the matter of the Crusades he and his whole nation had stood ostentatiously aloof.
Blaschko finds that governmental suppression and moral crusades accomplish nothing save driving the evil into secret channels, multiplying its dangers to society.
Owing, then, to the fearful blow inflicted by the Crusades on the Moslem powers of Asia Minor and Syria, the later years of Alexius were free from the danger which had overshadowed the beginning of his reign.
The second phenomenon which made the Crusades possible was the destruction of the Saracen naval power in the Central Mediterranean.
It was the fact that free access to the East was now to be gained, both by land and sea, as it had never been before, that made the Crusades feasible.
The Crusades were on the eve of their commencement.
But the Crusades had shaken this monopoly, when they taught the Italians to seek the hitherto unknown parts of Syria and Egypt, and buy their Eastern merchandize from the producer and not from the middleman.
The Crusades were not only a sign of the reawakened energy of Europe but were also a cause of increased intellectual activity and change.
More definitely, the Crusades were the response made by the nobility to the appeal of the East for help against the infidel.
This frequently took the form of a pilgrimage, and the Crusades furnished a "stupendous pilgrimage under specially favourable and meritorious conditions.
Moreover, the deeds of the Crusades supplied new material for historical literature, and stimulated the romantic element in life and thought.
Those who took part in the Crusades were brought in contact with new people and new ideas; new interests were created, and a more human conception of the world developed.
The age was essentially warlike; the definite objective of the Crusades was one that could only be achieved through military skill.
So now, the Crusades were the cause of many a young Englishman's starting off for a new land, and such of them as came back brought with them new ideas and memories of many strange bits of knowledge to talk about in the long evenings.
The Crusades had knit together the knights and barons of England into a close brotherhood, and for the king to harm one was likely to arouse the wrath of all.
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