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19 de jun. de 2024 · The list of Crusades in Europe and to the Holy Land identifies those conflicts in the 11th through 16th centuries that are referred to as Crusades. These include the traditional numbered crusades and others that prominent historians have identified as crusades.
17 de jun. de 2024 · The Crusades were organized by western European Christians after centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their primary objectives were to stop the expansion of Muslim states, to reclaim for Christianity the Holy Land in the Middle East, and to recapture territories that had formerly been Christian.
Hace 1 día · Beginning with the First Crusade, which resulted in the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, dozens of military campaigns were organised, providing a focal point of European history for centuries. Crusading declined rapidly after the 15th century.
17 de jun. de 2024 · Eleventh-century Europe abounded in local shrines housing relics of saints, but three great centres of pilgrimage stood out above the others: Rome, with the tombs of Saints Peter and Paul; Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain; and Jerusalem, with the Holy Sepulchre of Jesus Christ’s entombment.
17 de jun. de 2024 · The Crusades were a significant factor in Europe's development and had a marked impact on the development of Western historical literature. The Crusades slowed the advance of Islamic power; without the Crusading effort, it is difficult to see how western Europe could have escaped conquest by Muslim armies.
10 de jun. de 2024 · The Hussite Crusades were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Sigismund, now Holy Roman Empire, the papacy and European monarchs. These wars lasted from 1419 to approximately 1434.
20 de jun. de 2024 · In comparison with the many recently published one-volume histories of the crusade movement, Malcolm Barber has undertaken a relatively modest task: a history of the crusader states from the time of the First Crusade (1096–1109) to the end of the Third (1187–92).
