Sainte Chapelle, Paris 1243-1248 CE French King Louis IX

Charlemagne's palace chapel interior Aachen/Aix la chapelle early 9th century CE.

Note that I am rearranging the last two units - so that we don't end the course with the idea that at that time Europe's future domination of the world was a sure thing, even likely.

Read:  

Duiker/Spielvogel:  pp. 323-359.

Reilly, Vol. I, pp. 268-278, 311-322, 337-374 (Feudalism: "An Oath of Homage and Fealty"; Manorialism: "Duties of a Villein"; from the "Magna Carta"; Ulrich von Liechtenstein, "The Service of Ladies"; Andreas Capellanus, from "The Art of Courtly Love": Fulcher of Chartres, "Pope Urban at Clermont": "Chronicle of Solomon bar Simson"; Anna Comnena, from "The Alexiad"; Fulcher of Chartres, "The Siege of Antioch"; Ibn Al-Qalanisi, from "The Damascus Chronicle": Raymond of St. Giles, Count of Toulouse, "The Capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders"; Ibn al-Athir, "The Conaquest of Jerusalem"; "Letter from a Jewish Pilgrim in Egypt".

Written Assignment 13: Due on email by Sunday, 6 pm, April 6.  Answer the following question in 4 to 5 paragraphs.  

      Compare the views of Middle Easterners and Europeans about the Crusades - causes, purposes, nature, results/effects.

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