HIS 3387 The Crusades
Survey of the crusading movement, with particular focus on the Crusades to the Middle East from the eleventh to the thirteenth century. Topics include, in addition to the Crusades themselves, concepts of just war and crusade, warrior
mentality, the Crusader States, the military orders, and the crusading movement's
connections with the political, religious, cultural, economic, and social developments
in Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic Middle East.