HUM 001B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pope Urban Ii, First Crusade, Iberian Peninsula
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Lecture 15: crusades and castles the politics and architecture of medieval warfare: what was the background of the crusades and what are the reasons people joined the crusades, political reason. Increase papal authority: compete for secular leadership. Punishing atrocities or exporting violence, defending or expanding territory: religion reason, defending or imposing christianity, deflecting god"s wrath, gaining personal salvation, economical reasons, gaining new land and resources (proto-colonialism) Securing and expanding trade routes (spreading trade within italian cities: psychological reason (self motivation, desire for adventure. Took control of iberian peninsula for christian and continued to 11th cen. In palestine: conquest of jerusalem (1070) and defeat of byzantine forces (1071) by the seljuk turks, radical, defilement of holy sites, crushed by byzantines in. Papacy engaged in two-front struggles struggle against the german. Emperor and the eastern church: eastern church wanted to spread their teachings instead, western and eastern church split in 1054, concerns of mercantile italian city states about securing and.
