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Successive crusades were launched to the Holy Land. The knight Jean d’Alluye traveled to the Holy Land around 1240, but the circumstances of his voyage are not known (25.120.201). The Seventh and Eighth Crusades, in 1248 (38.60) and 1270, were sponsored by Louis IX, who died in Tunisia (54.1.2; 37.173.3).
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29 maj 2024 · The Morgan Crusader Bible illustrates portions of Genesis, Exodus, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Samuel, focusing on important figures of Israel: Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Samson, Samuel, Saul, Jonathan, and David. The scenes, however, reflect images of war that would have been familiar to the knights of thirteenth-century France.
In this class, the medieval manuscript known as the Morgan Picture Bible (or The Crusader's Bible or The Maciejowski Bible or The Shah 'Abbas Bible), one of the greatest achievements of French Gothic illumination, will be studied to prepare a period style illumination.
There were literally hundreds of crusades. In some periods, armed religious expeditions set forth almost every year. Many crusades did not fight against Muslims or go near the Holy Land. The church marched against European pagans (such as the Slavs) or heretics (such as the Albigensians).
Latin Crusaders captured Jerusalem on 15 July 1099, after Pope Urban’s call at the end of 1095 for the First Crusade.1 Latin domination of Jerusalem lasted until 1187 when Sultan Saladin captured the city.
4 lis 1999 · Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today.
The beginning of the crusades. The crusade of Urban II and Paschal II. The First Crusade confronts the East. The Holy Land: a new country overseas. From the First to the Second Crusade. Between Byzantium and Saladin: the perils of the Latin East. Crusades of reconquest (1188±1205)
