Crusade

(proper noun)

One of a series of ostensibly religious campaigns by Christian forces from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied it.

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Examples of Crusade in the following topics:

  • Pilgrimage Churches

    • The Crusades resulted in the growth and rising wealth of pilgrimage churches, many of which were built in the Romanesque style.
    • One of the effects of the Crusades, which were intended to wrest the Holy Places of Palestine from Islamic control, was to excite a great deal of religious fervor, which in turn inspired great building programs.
    • Likewise, those who did not return from the Crusades could be suitably commemorated by their family in a work of stone and mortar.
    • The Crusades resulted in the transfer of, among other things, a great number of Holy Relics of saints and apostles.
    • Analyze the religious fervor of the Crusades with the extensive creation of pilgramage churches.

  • The Church

    • Several important Romanesque churches were also built in the Crusader kingdoms.
    • In association with the Crusades, the military orders of the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar were founded.
    • The Crusades (1095-1291), which were intended to pry the holy places of Palestine from Islamic control, excited a great deal of religious fervor.
    • The military nobles of Europe, upon safe return from the Crusades, thanked God by the building of new churches or the enhancement of old ones.
    • Likewise, those who did not return from the Crusades could be suitably commemorated by their families in works of stone and mortar.The Crusades resulted in the transfer of a great number of holy relics of saints and apostles, among many other things relocated through the fortunes of war.

  • The Romanesque Period

    • Romanesque art was affected by shifting political powers following the Carolingian period, and the mobility of peoples during the Crusades.
    • The domed churches of Constantinople and Eastern Europe were to greatly affect the architecture of certain towns, particularly through trade and through the Crusades.
    • The result of this was that they could be called upon, not only for local spats, but to follow their lord to travel across Europe to the Crusades.
    • The Crusades, 1095–1270, brought about a very large movement of people, and with them ideas and trade skills, particularly those involved in the building of fortifications and the metal working needed for the provision of arms, which was also applied to the fitting and decoration of buildings .

  • Timeline

    • 1204: Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade sack the Christian Eastern Orthodox city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.

  • Late Byzantine Art

    • During the Fourth Crusades, the Crusaders attacked Constantinople, took the city under siege in 1203, and eventually overcame the defenses to sack the city in 1204.
    • The division of the Byzantine Empire after its sacking in 1204 by French and Italian armies during the Fourth Crusades

  • Humanism

    • Following the Crusader sacking of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, the migration of Byzantine Greek scholars and émigrés, who had greater familiarity with ancient languages and works, furthered the revival of Greek and Roman literature and science.

  • Italian Gothic Painting

    • After the conquest of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, the influx of Byzantine paintings and mosaics increased greatly.