Essays on Crusading

MOVEMENTS IN RELATION TO CHRISTIANITY

The account of the Crusades, which happened during the Middle Ages, is considered as a significant part of the history of Christianity and the church. It is regarded as the first great enterprise that shows “common zeal of the Christian nations of Europe.” At the same time, these religiously-driven military movements brought forth diverse social, economic, and political impacts upon the European region. History shows no similar record where so many men from different countries and social ranks were brought together having equal enthusiasm. Hundreds of thousands of lives were sacrificed during these campaigns. However, it is being contested as ...

Historical events, particularly the very distant ones, can be viewed in different and contrasting perspectives. Interestingly, technological innovations of online games can be used to advance alternate perspectives on historical events. Online gaming has become so widespread that it has great power to influence one’s perceptions and can be a convenient route to provoke deeper thinking on alternate perspectives. Thus, the central focus of my thesis and argument is that video games like the Assassin’s Creed have the right to offer different interpretations of history, however absurd the notions advanced. As an online game, the Assassin’s ...

Compare and Contrast a Traditional Narrative of Columbus’s Motivations to a More Modern Scholarly Treatment of Columbus

The journey of Columbus presents him as a scientist who was always against religious superstition. Moreover, Columbus was seen as person who was so ambitious in locating America. Columbus has played a major role in defining modernity in history of Europe, Islam and America. Columbus massive interest was in the recovery of Jerusalem. According to reliable sources, Columbus was only looking as well as locating for the mythical Island known as Antillas along the Atlantic. A mysterious pilot as revealed in his journals was guiding him all through the entire journey. Throughout his entire discovery, Columbus journey was characterized by strong motivation ...

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The crusades have been typically framed as a series of military encounters mainly a clash of the medieval Catholic Church and other non Christian cultures. The near east, the eastern Baltic and the Iberian peninsula have recently been described as the frontier societies during the expansion of Christian Europe. The expansion and movement of the European populations was tied to the increasing exploitation of natural resources. People aspired to manipulate their local environments to suit their changing social- economic and ideological environments especially in the colonized regions. These changes include; Urban growth, crowding and pollution. Many societies mainly preferred the urban ...