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Lecture Supplement 1
Course Introduction
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Reading
Paul Halsall. So What Happened in the Middle Ages? Basic [!] Background Riley-Smith, Jonathan. "Rethinking the Crusades." First Things March, 2000: 20-23. [With later Correspondence] Dixon, Tomas. "An Apology, 900 Years in the Making." Christianity Today (Sep 6 1999): 24. [Online via Infotrac Onefile]
I. The Crusading Movement
One of defining features of central and late Middle Ages.
II. Sources
Many - chronicles, cemoirs, papal Documents, secular documents. We are in to a new world compared to the earlier periods.
III. The Big Questions
What is a Crusade?
"Holy War" is an easy answer, but is hard to define. In a militarized and religious society "Holy War" might seem natural, but the crusades were in fact a lot more complicated than this.
In this course we will examine what the Crusades were, and what there impact was.
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