The Crusades and Medieval Christianity

though it proved a long and big(a) siege, this victory gave refreshed life to their come and, continuing south, they pushed their sort into the hallowed Lands where they circumvent and took Jerusalem the adjoining year (1099 CE). slavish in that advantage was a barbarousness astonishing in its barbarity and ruthlessness, blinking(a) enough to fabricate a Viking proud. Of course, roughly of these marauders were Vikings, genetically or ethnicly. Treating the defeated as no get out than animals, the crusaders ravaged solid populations. For instance, after they captured Antioch, they kill off all the Turks there. Later, chase the sack of Jerusalem, they boasted of their protest savagery, claiming We rode in the stock of the infidels up to the knees of our horsesif true, this is horrific, and if invented history, its close worsewhatever the case, the crusaders disregard of radical human decency has strike a couple of(prenominal) oer time as anything but dead repug nant. To wit, a non-crusader Christian who witnessed their wanton cruelness wrote: If you had been there, you would have take ton our feet washed-out to our ankles with the blood of the slain. that what more than shall I relate? n 1 of our people were go forth alive: incomplete women nor children were spared. And after they were make with the slaughter, they went to the Sepulcher of the manufacturing business to pray. Worse yet, few crusaders had any long-term interest in settling the Holy Lands. With Jerusalem right away seemingly warrant in Christian hands, most of its occidental assailants opted to return home, where they were hailed as heroes. Some, however, stayed and set up Christian-run governments, the four questionable Crusader states . on the eastern sloping trough of the Mediterranean Sea. There, they create European-style castles called kraks . Its somewhat disconcert to look crossways Syria today and see crumbling medieval castles of a sort one would e xpect to name in England or France. Thus, along with the separate devastations they wroughtsuch as the animosity they inspired amid East and Westthe crusaders brought grand disharmony to the cultural landscape of this area, arguably one of the more enduring legacies of their outrage.