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New Historical Perspectives on the Crusades

Scholars are re-thinking the chief causes that led to the period of history known as the Crusades. Learn more about these new ideas.

Discussion Questions for this video:

  • What demographic and cultural factors made Europeans begin to look outward?
  • What role did the call to Crusade play for young, western European men?
  • How was religious motivation used to encourage men to risk life and security and go on a Crusade?
  • What group was portrayed as pagans to potential recruits for the crusade?
  • What was the relationship between pilgrimage and war in calls to the crusades?
Additional Learning Resources

  • Maps of the Crusades
  • Timeline of the Crusades
  • Historical Overview and Legacy of the Crusades
  • Analyzing the Popes’ calls to the Crusades, and Muslim responses
  • Jerusalem in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
  • Military Innovations of the Crusades period
  • Cultural and artistic exchanges of the Crusades period (Pt. 2)

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