The University of Alabama 3 credits HY
This course explores, from multiple perspectives, the troubled medieval marriage of religion and violence known as "the crusades." It offers not only an overview of the traditional, largely military narrative of "numbered" crusades. It also explores the broader view - the general context of "holy war" down to c. 1100; tensions between the ideal and reality of crusading; the social and cultural impact of the crusades, for good and ill; the Muslim perception of the "Franj" as both invaders and neighbors, and the long afterlife of the crusades down through the early modern period. Later sessions of the course then turn to the range of contested historiographical issues that have characterized the study of the crusades in recent years. There are no pre-requisites for the course, though completion of our introductory Western Civilization course (HY 101/105) would be helpful.
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