1. The Crusading Movement

2. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”

3. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”
A. From the Medieval Latin Perspective

4. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”
A. From the Medieval Latin Perspective
B. Religion and Violence

5. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”
A. From the Medieval Latin Perspective
B. Religion and Violence
II. Background to the Crusades

6. "The existence of Islam was the most far-reaching problem in medieval Christendom.”
- R.W. Southern (medieval historian)

7. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”
A. From the Medieval Latin Perspective
B. Religion and Violence
II. Background to the Crusades
A. The Spanish Experience

8. Great mosque of Cordoba

9. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”
A. From the Medieval Latin Perspective
B. Religion and Violence
II. Background to the Crusades
A. The Spanish Experience
B. Reconquista

11. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”
A. From the Medieval Latin Perspective
B. Religion and Violence
II. Background to the Crusades
A. The Spanish Experience
B. Reconquista
III. Rise of the Crusading Movement

12. Pope Urban II Preaches a Crusade: Clermont, France (1095)

13. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”
A. From the Medieval Latin Perspective
B. Religion and Violence
II. Background to the Crusades
A. The Spanish Experience
B. Reconquista
III. Rise of the Crusading Movement
IV. Progress of the Crusades

14. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”
A. From the Medieval Latin Perspective
B. Religion and Violence
II. Background to the Crusades
A. The Spanish Experience
B. Reconquista
III. Rise of the Crusading Movement
IV. Progress of the Crusades
A. First Crusade & Crusader States

16. Crusader States

17. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”
A. From the Medieval Latin Perspective
B. Religion and Violence
II. Background to the Crusades
A. The Spanish Experience
B. Reconquista
III. Rise of the Crusading Movement
IV. Progress of the Crusades
A. First Crusade & Crusader States
B. Military Religious Orders

18. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”
A. From the Medieval Latin Perspective
B. Religion and Violence
II. Background to the Crusades
A. The Spanish Experience
B. Reconquista
III. Rise of the Crusading Movement
IV. Progress of the Crusades
A. First Crusade & Crusader States
B. Military Religious Orders
C. Eventual Failure of the Crusades

19. The Crusading Movement
I. Introduction: Defining “the Crusades”
A. From the Medieval Latin Perspective
B. Religion and Violence
II. Background to the Crusades
A. The Spanish Experience
B. Reconquista
III. Rise of the Crusading Movement
IV. Progress of the Crusades
A. First Crusade & Crusader States
B. Military Religious Orders
C. Eventual Failure of the Crusades
D. The Fourth Crusade: A Disaster for Byzantine-Latin Relations

21. The Crusaders' fleet besieges Constantinople (1204)

22. brought as spoils to Venice)
Four Horsemen, St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy (Taken from Constantinople by crusaders during the Fourth Crusade;
brought as spoils to Venice)