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Western offensive in the Mediterranean: The Crusades.
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Western offensive in the Mediterranean: The Crusades The crusades imply the military and religious confrontation between the Latin, Christian West and the Muslim world. This clash clearly separated the two but also brought them into greater contact with one another. 1. The Crusades: A Holy War in the East. On the 27th of November in 1095 at the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II called for a Crusade to free the holy sites of Jerusalem from muslim domination (they had been under muslim control for 4 centuries). The pope tried to capitalise on a rising, religious awakening and seize the reins of christianity from the rising power of sovereigns. Jerusalem is the objective of the crusades. To capture Jerusalem and its holy saints, namely the Holy Sepulchre, Christ's tomb. From 1096 to 1291 thousands of christians from the latin west headed to Palestine convinced that their salvation would come in...
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