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Product Description: In The Era of the Crusades, Professor Kenneth W. Harl looks at the "big picture" of the Crusades as an ongoing period of conflict involving Western Christendom (we would now call it Western Europe), the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world. From this perspective, you will study the complex but absorbing causes of the Crusades, which include the many political, cultural, and economic changes in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.
In addition, Professor Harl presents the Crusades in terms of the specific military campaigns-the eight "canonical" Crusades that took place from 1095-1291-proclaimed to retake Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim hands and return them to Christendom. You will consider the immediate circumstances-the leaders, purposes, key battles, and degrees of success or failure-surrounding these often-monumental expeditions (they could number as many as 100,000 soldiers and religious pilgrims).
This course is an opportunity to appreciate fully how Western Civilization changed in many profound ways during the Crusading era. You will understand how the Byzantine Empire collapsed; how Western Europe began its rise to global political, economic, and cultural power; and how the Middle East became a majority Muslim world.
You will also explore a wide variety of misperceptions and long-debated questions about the Crusades. Did the popes preach the Crusades as a way to increase their personal power and authority? Were the Crusader armies made up of zealous and brutal religious fanatics or of highly disciplined soldiers-heirs to a sophisticated Western European military tradition? Why did the members of the Fourth Crusade decide to sack Constantinople, turning the Crusades from Christian against "infidel" to Christian against Christian?
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[list][*]1. The Heirs of Rome
[*]2. Byzantine Orthodox Civilization
[*]3. Byzantine Zenith in the Macedonian Age
[*]4. The Failure of the Heirs of Basil II
[*]5. Abbasid Baghdad and Fatimid Egypt
[*]6. The Coming of the Seljuk Turks
[*]7. The Recovery of Western Europe
[*]8. Kings and Princes of Western Europe
[*]9. Warfare in Western Europe
[*]10. The Papacy and Religious Reform
[*]11. Piety and Pilgrimage
[*]12. Christian Offensives in Spain and Sicily
[*]13. Alexius I and the First Crusade
[*]14. From Clermont to Jerusalem
[*]15. Conquest and Defense of Outremer
[*]16. Frankish Settlement of Outremer
[*]17. Comnenian Emperors and Crusader Princes
[*]18. The Second Crusade
[*]19. The Empire at Bay
[*]20. The Rise of Saladin
[*]21. Byzantine Recovery under the Comnenians
[*]22. A Renaissance of Byzantine Letters and Arts
[*]23. Trade and Currency in the Mediterranean
[*]24. Cultural Exchange in Gothic Europe
[*]25. The Horns of Hattin
[*]26. The Third Crusade
[*]27. From Jerusalem to Constantinople
[*]28. The Sack of Constantinople
[*]29. The World of Frankish Greece
[*]30. Splinter Empires and Orthodox Princes
[*]31. Ayyubid Egypt and Seljuk Anatolia
[*]32. Crusader Cyprus and the Levant
[*]33. Venice and Genoa
[*]34. The Mongols and the Legend of Prester John
[*]35. The Royal Crusaders
[*]36. The Passing of the Crusades
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