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The Central Middle Ages: Reform, Revival, and Expansion
Conquests, Crusades and Persecutions
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Chapter Outline

Conquests, Crusades, and Persecutions


I. Conquests and Territorial Expansion

  1. Iberia [WEB: Medieval Sourcebook: Iberia]
    1. The Reconquest
    2. Process of Reconquest [TXT: The Lay of the Cid][IMG: Saint James of the Great [BNF: 15th Cent MS Illustration]]
    3. Jews and Muslims in Christian Iberia
  1. Sicily and the Southern Italian Peninsula
    1. Robert Guiscard (1025-1085) and Sichelgaita (c. 1040-1090)
    2. The Norman Kingdom of Sicily
  1. German Eastward Expansion

II. Crusades [WEB: Medieval Sourcebook: Crusades]

  1. Origins [TXT: Urban II. Speech at Clermont 1095][IMG: 1095 Pope Urban II Preaching at Clermont [BNF: Miniature of 1490]]
  1. The Popular Crusade and the First Crusade
  2. The Second and Third Crusades
  3. The Fourth Crusade [TXT: The Fourth Crusade 1204: Collected Sources]
  4. Later Crusades
  5. Military Orders [IMG: Knights Fighting Saracens [BNF: MS Illustration] ][WEB: ORB Military Orders Page]
  6. The Crusades in Perspective [TXT: Usmah Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188): Autobiography: Excerpts on the Franks, c.1175 CE.]

III. Persecutions

  1. Crusades and Inquisition Within Europe [WEB: The Inquisition Record of Jacques Fournier Bishop of Pamiers 1318-1325]
  2. Jews and Other European Minorities
  3. The Templars