The Crusades don’t make sense… unless…

The Crusades don’t make sense… unless…

Lecture by Dr. Thomas F. Madden, professor of Medieval History and Director of the Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University.

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[daniellimo]

I guess this guy never read about the history books. They marched to help their brothers who were being besieged by Arabs who had marched thousands of miles from Arabia

[CanadianBlues]

The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule.


The First Crusade, called in response to a request for help from the Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus, was astonishingly successful. The Crusaders conquered Nicaea (in Turkey) and Antioch and then went on to seize Jerusalem, and they established a string of Crusader-ruled states. However, after the Muslim leader Zangī captured one of them, the Second Crusade, called in response, was defeated at Dorylaeum (near Nicaea) and failed in an attempt to conquer Damascus. The Third Crusade, called after the sultan Saladin conquered the Crusader state of Jerusalem, resulted in the capture of Cyprus and the successful siege of Acre (now in Israel), and Richard I’s forces defeated those of Saladin at the Battle of Arsūf and at Jaffa. Richard signed a peace treaty with Saladin allowing Christians access to Jerusalem. The Fourth Crusade—rather than attacking Egypt, then the centre of Muslim power—sacked the Byzantine Christian city of Constantinople. None of the following Crusades were successful. The capture of Acre in 1291 by the Māmluk sultan al-Ashraf Khalil marked the end of Crusader rule in the Middle East.

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[Tonybob]

I disagree with that, it makes a lot of sense when you look at the history behind it. Islam exploded out of Arabia, conquered all of the holy land in a jihad, invaded and conquered Persia In another, then went on a brutal conquest of North Africa and invaded Spain, they established a slave trade that was as large if not larger then the Atlantic slave trade, and then repeatedly invaded Europe including Italy itself.

I get really annoyed and the blatant lying about the crusades, like Islam was involved in consistent military conquests against Christianity and literally every other religion it went up against and this is just conveniently left out whenever talking about this stuff. History deniers at its finest, and i really don’t understand why.

[James-ztnf]

They went to free their christian brothers and sisters

[marcladuke]

Yeah it was to push the enemy back from destroying them

[Iustusxi]

They had a holy and just reason. I would have done the same and joined them. Weeping they sang, singing they wept.

[mihaiszilagyi]

No good strategic reason? The muslims were in Spain and could attack at any time, knights and nobles were fighting amongst each other and then they had the chance to reunite the Eastern Church under the Pope’s command. How’s that for a strategic reason?

[GoErikTheRed]

I’m sure the fact that a lot of the leaders were the second sons of royalty who ended up the of rulers of new kingdoms had absolutely nothing to do with it

[urbanrootstt]

The Christian crusaders had good reason !!! And them reasons have come to fruition!!

[calumfoster-bayliss]

Yeah its not like the levant is a fabulously wealthy trade hub connecting east and west or anything

[kalcosin]

People just ignore the hundreds of years of Arab, aggression. (On top of Kurds and many other ethnicties)

[ATLbraves]

Honestly it was for a better reason than most wars even if the people fighting it knew the reason or not.

[BSIHRI]

It's not to capture the holy land, it's if I'm not wrong, Byzantine empire asking for help to the Pope since the Seljuk Turks began to advance deep to their territory.
And yeah, Pope's called the big kings of Europe to launch a Crusade, not really sure who won but, whatever.

[arsnotoria]

Made total sense and very much justified. Deus Vult!

[Skogebear]

Seems like the crusades were defensible in idea but execution was less than ideal. Cant be killing random villages of people because you didnt plan the logistics of long travel.
Its tough to defend the behavior when its as bad as the monster you are on the way to kill.

[fishingislife]

How else would they get there, by plane, by railroad, it’s the 11th century, you want to get somewhere you walk, horseback, or boat

[SpartanChief]

The beginning describes USA in Middle East

[OntheLAMRomans]

This man is not a scholar. His ignorance of this historic period is shameful. That he speaks with such conviction is his attempt to make himself appear informed.
He has learned nothing over the last 50 years. Shameful.

[NEUWRIGHT]

uh, they kept Islam that thirsted for blood back in their evil pit.

[brianreinert]

Read the book Gods Battalions: The Case For The Crusades