HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Muslim Hands, Monophysitism
16 Nov 2020
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Religious zeal ran extraordinarily high among europeans. The great church reform had been pushed along by the masses. it gained speed and fervor as it went. the crusaders who won the holy land confronted an immediate problem: No one wanted to turn it over to the byzantines, as they had promised to do; Alexius, after resupplying the army at constantinople, had never followed through on his promise of further assistance. Instead, since they viewed their crusade as a variant version of a pilgrimage. most of the crusaders, like regular pilgrims, returned home once they had reached their sworn destination. This left a tiny minority of latin christians in control of a coastal strip of land roughly five hundred miles from north to south. one hundred miles from east to west at its widest point. Considering the brutality of the crusade itself, relations between conquerors and conquered were surprisingly peaceable.
