Transcript The Crusades impact

By: Micah Lindsey ,Summer Larsen
The impact on religion
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The Crusades were also a development of
religious life and feeling in the West. In the
time religion was moved by tales of signs and
wonders, and it acquired through natural
disasters to supernatural intervention. A
peace movement also developed, especially
in France, under the leadership of certain
bishops ,but was with considerable popular
support. Religious leaders proclaimed the
“Peace of God” and the “Truce of God,”
designed to halt or at least limit warfare and
assaults during certain days of the week and
times of the year and to protect the lives of
clergy, travelers, women, and cattle, and
others unable to defend themselves against
brigandage.
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 It may seem paradoxical that a council both promulgated peace and officially
sanctioned war, but the peace movement was designed to protect those in
distress, and a strong element of the Crusade was the idea of giving aid to
fellow Christians in the East. Tied to this idea was the notion that war to defend
Christendom was not only a justifiable undertaking but a holy work and
therefore pleasing to God.
 Closely associated with this Western concept of holy war was another
popular religious practice, pilgrimage to a holy shrine. Eleventh-century
Europe abounded in local shrines housing relics of saints, but three great
centuries 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 Christ’s entombment.
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 When Urban Pope II called for the first Crusade In 1095, And promised the
crusaders full forgiveness of their sins, granted them entry into the gates of
heaven. This offered a gateway for religion, and enhanced the religious
motivations involved. When Urban Pope II said that there sins would be
forgiven, it opened up an area of faith, gathering Christians together for a fight
for the holy land
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 There was a religious reform and evolution during the crusades, for example
churches started to focus on landholdings and political interest.
 Then there was the high middle aged, which the marks were the 12th and 13th
century. It was also when the dominance of Christianity was verses vitality and
diversity of university life.
 There was new universities established, for example intellectual vitality, in
which university education led to higher jobs. Which unlike china where
success is not tied into bureaucracy. Also with these new universities students
paid teachers directly.
Thomas Aquinas
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 Thomas believed that faith came
first and that through reason
humans can find order. Thomas’s
Summas used logic to eliminate
objections. Scholasticism was logic
to an absurd degree, could you
prove anything logically?
Geographical region of the Crusades
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In the Mediterranean, military
explorations, in the late 11th century
called the crusades were waged to
re-gain control of the holy lands, as
we all know, but as these crusades
went on there were multiples ideas
roaming free. Such as religion, as
mentioned above, and architecture.
Crusaders impact on Architecture
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Syria architecture
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 One main type of architecture was gothic architecture, architectural style in
Europe that lasted from the mid 12th century to the 16th century, particularly a
style of masonry building characterized by cavernous spaces with the expanse
of walls broken up by overlaid tracery. In the 12th–13th centuries, feats of
engineering permitted increasingly gigantic buildings. Gothic architecture also
had soaring spires, as well as tell arched windows, and stained glass
Impact on Literature and Politics
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Christian art reflected a very popular outlook
and a formal religious theology. A goal was
to serve the glory of god as well as to depict
the saints. The Christian arts used stylized
figures. This also help with the use of stained
glass in churches.