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This 6 page paper considers the attitudes and perceptions of pilgrimage and holy war, and how medieval attitudes contrast with contemporary ones. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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genocidal attacks upon a culture that was, at the time, far more advanced than Christianity. This paper considers the attitudes and perceptions of pilgrimage and holy war, and how
medieval attitudes contrast with contemporary ones. The Crusades The word "Crusade" came to the attention of the world when President Bush used it ill-advisedly to describe his war on
terror, thereby offending all Muslims and most of the rest of the world. But the question should be asked, is the interpretation of the Crusades as an unjustified quest
for glory and riches accurate? What can we really know about events that took place 1,000 years ago? The term Crusades is usually applied to the time between the
eleventh and fifteenth centuries when Europeans traveled to the Holy Land to "liberate" Jerusalem. Even scholars today find it hard to be impartial about these pilgrimages, but at least
one writer has attempted to "give readers a survey of a very complicated period."1 In addition, he believes that the Crusades influence us today.2 The Crusades began at Clermont
in France, when Pope Urban II "called on the faithful to relieve the oppression of Eastern Christians and liberate the Holy Places by means of an armed pilgrimage, participation in
which would earn remission of ones penances because of the great hardships which would be faced."3 The idea was novel, and dangerous, and Urban had to present it carefully
to win support; he had to paint a picture that was "direct and vivid."4 He did exactly that by describing a "state of crisis in the eastern Mediterranean" in
which "Christians were being subjected to horrible persecutions including rape, torture, mutilation and murder."5 Urban brought the idea of a pilgrimage into the discussion by asking his audience "to
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