The Crusades impact

By: Micah Lindsey ,Summer Larsen

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.

The impact on religion

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.

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

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 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?

Thomas Aquinas

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.

Geographical region of the Crusades

Crusaders impact on Architecture

Syria architecture

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

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.