HISA 4140 The Crusades, 1095-1291

HISA 4140 The Crusades, 1095-1291
The Crusades, 1095-1291
This course traces the origins of crusading in Western Europe and events that led to the launching of Crusades to recover Jerusalem. Emphasis is upon how the Crusades shifted the political and economic axis in the Medieval world as well as led innovations in arts and letters for Western Europe, the Byzantine world and the Muslim Near East.
credit hours: 3