The Crusades ~ Allah, God or Jehovah Will Know His Own! ~ History Winter Lecture Series 2005 (5-Audio Tape Set)

Recorded January and February, 2005 ~ The Crusades are among the most famous events of the Middle Ages. Beginning in 1096, armies of Western European Christians tried for 200 years to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslim peoples who had successfully ruled there for nearly half a millennium. The Crusades continued even after the failure to recapture the Holy Land, with fateful consequences for Christian and Muslim relations that reverberate to this day in contemporary Middle East politics. Professor Robert Stacey explanins how this extraordinary movement arose, discusses it successes and failures and the lasting impact the Crusades have had upon Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Audio Tape #1 ~ "If I Should Forget Thee O Jerusalem ~ The Origins of Crusading and the First Crusade ~ In 1096, a hastily gathered army of perhaps 100,000 western Europena Christians set out to recapture the city of Jerusalem, a city that had been in Muslim hands continuously for almost 500 years.