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Siege warfare during the Crusades
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History, Hollywood, and the Crusades
… between film and history in the depiction of the Crusades. It proposes that film is a valuable historical tool for teaching about the past on several levels, namely the film’s contemporaneous views of the Crusades, and the history Crusades themselves. This thesis recommends that a more rigid …
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Vengeance and the crusades 1095-1216
Through textual analysis of specific medieval vocabulary it has been possible to clarify the course of the concept of vengeance in general as well as the more specific idea of crusading as an act of vengeance. The concept of vengeance was intimately connected with the ideas of justice and …
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The Emotional Rhetoric of the Later Crusades: Romance in England after 1291
… of late medieval public response to the crusades through an investigation of emotional rhetoric in the Middle English crusading romances. It argues that the prevailing climate after the fall of Acre in 1291 and the evacuation of the last Christian strongholds in the Levant was …
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The merchant of Genoa : the Crusades, the Genoese and the Latin East, 1187-1220s
… examines Genoa's involvement in three crusades following the fall of the first kingdom of Jerusalem as well as the role played by Genoese in commerce and in the re-establishment of the Latin society in the crusader states. The research focuses on the people of Genoa, merchants and …
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A comparative analysis of the logical modes of persuasion used by Billy Graham and Billy Sunday in selected sermons of their New York crusades
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The Rise and Fall of the Crudsades Through Vatican Political Hegemony
<p>Traditionally, the Crusades have been viewed as occurring between the 1095 speech given by Pope Urban II at Clermont until the fall of Acre in 1291, yet recent scholarship has shown this to be inaccurate. By shifting the focus from a chronological start to a definitional origin, this thesis will …
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The contextualisation of Crusader mass graves from Sidon, Lebanon.
… evidence for these events and processes. The Crusades in the Levant have been extensively studied from the perspective of the rich archive of historical records pertaining to the period. Yet, rarely have these violent times been studied from the most direct and incontrovertible evidence for …
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The Great Men of Christendom: The Failure of the Third Crusade
… by extension all of the previous and subsequent Crusades—were destined to fail because of structural disadvantages which plagued the expeditions to the Holy Land. The Christians in the Holy Land were not selfsufficient, and they depended on an extensive amount of aid from Europe for their …
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Social reform in the burned-over district: Rochester, New York as a test case, 1830-1854
… following 1820, a variety of social reform crusades swept western New York. Although none of these crusades was peculiar to New York, this region somehow seemed more receptive to them than any other section of the country. The region's responsiveness to reform movements and religious …
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The Cyclical Nature of Moral Entrepreneurship.
… the American public to support their anti-drug crusades.</p> <p>The methodology section consisted of information gathered from primary and secondary sources, and described why these sources were used.</p> <p>Harry Anslinger and Richard Nixon were used as models to demonstrate how a cycle of …
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Reading Reverence: Literate Practice in Ambrose of Milan's Expositio evangelii secundum Lucam
… the church into the entity that would launch crusades and entice the pious to pray at shrines.
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Beyond Tolerations and Accomodation: Amicable Religious Coexistence in the Late Medieval Balkans
… notably in the bloodshed and brutality of the Crusades. This overwhelming conflict makes it hard for anyone to imagine the Middle Ages as an ear in which there could have been cordial or harmonious religious coexistence of any kind. This must be considered. In the Balkans during the Late …
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The Evolution of Thought: The Development and Motivation of Religious Conflict Between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula From 711-1609
… to official Church movements such as the Crusades or doctrinal stances. Finally, the paper looks at minority inside Spain, including an analysis of all three major religions of the time with a careful effort to bring in the perspective of the marginalized groups.
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The Relationship Between Faith Formation Experiences and Spiritual Maturity: A Quantitative Study
… attempt to quantify results from evangelistic crusades. The quantitative research design consisted of utilizing the consistently valid and reliable Transformational Discipleship Assessment used for measuring spiritual maturity, supplemented with additional questions to respondents pertaining to …
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The Prester John Legend and European conceptions of Alterity before 1800.
… orthodoxy of Oriental Christianity from the Crusades into the Reformation. Consequently, this study calls for a new approach to myth and its push-pull relationship to scientific knowledge formation.
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
… Langland, and John Gower, were against the later crusades regardless of their target. However, since the anti-crusade voice of Gower and Langland has been discussed by many other scholars, this study focuses on Chaucer's poems and their implicit opposition of crusading. I argue that despite …
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Social Control and the Westboro Baptist Church: Fuel to the Fire?
… of the role of the police in their "love crusades," as well as the protest policing strategy of Negotiated Management and their uniform utilization of it. This research adds to our current understanding of the relationship between mobilization and social control, specifically the function …
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The Western image of Turks from the Middle Ages to the 21st century: the myth of 'terrible Turk' and 'lustful Turk'
… their perfect 'Self'. Since the beginning of Crusades, the Western image of Turks is associated with cruelty, barbarity, murderousness, immorality, and sexual perversion. These characteristics still appear in cinematic representations of Turks. In Western films such as Lawrence of Arabia and …
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