HISB61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Investiture Controversy, Ernest Barker, Muslim Hands
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The crusades are related to the investiture controversy. Much of our thinking about the crusades derives from a famous essay on the crusades by ernest barker who wrote the entry or the crusades in an encyclopedia in 1911. Begin in western europe in the 10th century and became more popular/continues in the. An interaction between the east and west: different mentality; difference between the greek and latin churches. Going to the holy places: rome is the heart of the first christian bishop peter, spain has the church of st. james, the holy land/the land of jesus christ holy to jews, christians, and muslims. The first crusade begins in 1095 after the initial confrontation in the investiture. Controversy: for contemporaries, the crusades were holy wars in the burial place of jesus. Christ: goal: take back the holy land as it was a symbol of everlasting life, can be interpreted by the ideas of life after death.
