There were actually two Crusades during the late 1090s. The “People’s Crusade” was a popular movement led by Peter the Hermit, a charismatic preacher who whipped crowds of believers into a religious frenzy as he passed through Western Europe recruiting for the crusade. In a religious frenzy...
6. The Crusades The crusades were a series of religious wars in western Asia and Europe initiated, supported and sometimes directed by the Catholic Church between the 11th and the 17th century. The crusades differed from other religious conflicts in that participants considered them a penitential ...
The Crusades had a marked impact on the development of Western historical literature, bringing a plethora of chronicles and eyewitness accounts. However, Constantinople never returned to its former glory after being sacked by the Fourth Crusade, and the schism between Eastern and Roman Catholic ...
European explorers and conquerors began coming to the Americas in droves after 1492. While the Spanish and Portuguese took the lead in colonization, the French soon began sending explorers of their own to the New World. Answer and Explanation: ...
Roman influenced groups, most people simply have not looked into the teachings of the original church, learned when certain doctrines were changed by the Greco-Romans, or considered that there could be a group with ties to the apostles which is not Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or ...
Are Knights Templar Catholic? Are the Teutonic Knights accepted by the Catholic Church? Are the Knights of Malta Benedictine monks? Were there people living in the area of Prussia before the Teutonic Knights? Are the Knights of Malta Jesuits?
A few centuries earlier, one of the many problems Martin Luther had with the Catholic Church was the idea that the clergy should be celibate, which he felt encouraged the “sinful” act of masturbation.As he stated, “Nature never lets up… We are all driven to the secret sin. To say ...
2012 June Q2: Between 1500 and 1850 the authorities had to deal with many different types of crime. (a) Briefly describe how vagrants were punished in the sixteenth century. (5) (b) Explain why the Gunpowder Plotters were punished so harshly. (7) (c) Who was more of a problem for th...
The Teutonic Order offered military services to Christians during the Crusades in the Holy Land and Eastern Europe. The Teutonic Order is a knighthood of the Catholic Church and is commonly known as the Teutonic Knights. They provided security and fought in wars against other religions during the...