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Crusading movement

The Crusading movement was a major religious, political, and military endeavour of the Middle Ages, generally dated from the Council of Clermont (1095), at which Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade, an armed expedition in support of Eastern Christians under Muslim rule. He framed it as a form of penitential pilgrimage. By this point, papal…

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Background

Prelude to the First Crusade

Crusading campaigns

Theory and theology

Crusaders

Enemies and contacts

Women

Crusading in practice

Warfare

New states

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Crusading movement

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Crusading movement

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related to Women · 11
Crusading movement → Byzantine, Christian, Crusader, Crusaders, Frankish, Gender, Muslim, Occasionally, Though, Washerwomen, Women
related to background · 8
Crusading movement → Catholic Europe, Christian, Jerusalem, Middle Ages, Related, The, The Crusades, Western European
related to New states · 4
Crusading movement → European, Latin Christendom, Robert Bartlett, The

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the Hundred Years' War.Other theatres of warThe historian Simon Lloyd notes thatinstance ofefforts were hampered by events0.80text
the Hundred Years' Warinstance ofefforts were hampered by events0.80text
the Knights Hospitallerinstance ofgiving rise to orders0.80text
and the Teutonic Knightsinstance ofgiving rise to orders0.80text
the risks posed by crusaders' absencesinstance ofMainstream Catholic criticism targeted specific aspects0.80text
Latiniinstance ofusing terms0.80text
Matthew of Edessa cast the Crusades in apocalyptic termsinstance ofChroniclers0.80text
associating Frankish rule with the fourth kingdom in Daniel's prophecyinstance ofChroniclers0.80text
Benjamin of Tudela recorded their journey in traveloguesinstance ofJewish pilgrims0.80text
and an unknown Jew from France who settled in the Holy Land in 1211 wrote a treatise urging others to reclaim it for Judaisminstance ofJewish pilgrims0.80text
iterinstance ofreflecting the movement's association with pilgrimage through terms0.80text
Louis Maimbourg were more sympatheticinstance ofwhereas Catholics0.80text

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