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Thursday, 4 September 2008
Why was the First Crusade a Crusade?
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Holy wars had been conducted previously to the expedition of 1095, and is it simply the case that the success of the Crusade caused it to be...
The Violence of the Crusades
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Even though the violence of the crusades was generally accepted and rationalised, was there any christian outrage at what happened? How cou...
Were there many fundamental differences between the 3 crusades?
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If all the crusades were sponsored by the Papacy and had the same aims to reclaim the holy land and expell the infidels, then were there any...
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Was Urban entirely motivated by piety when he called for a crusade?
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In his speech of the Council of Clermont, Urban seems passionately motivated about crusading in order to save fellow Christians from t...
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How could convivencia exist while the Spanish were attempting to reclaim Muslim lands?
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Convivencia
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Was convivencia just tolerance of other religions, or interaction between jews, muslims and christians? How often was there conversion due t...
Was Charlemagne partly able to hold together an empire due to having seen the Merovingians be overthrown?
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Did the history of the Carolingian overthrow of the Merovingian dynasty still echo in the mind of Charlemagne, making him less likely to mak...
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