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The Morgan Crusader Bible, created circa 1250 in Paris, was originally designed to be a picture book of the Old Testament with a clear focus on visual opulence. It specifically omitted any text. For the most part, the miniatures present episodes of David and Saul from 1 and 2 Kings, reinterpreted in a contemporary French Gothic crusader landscape.
Overview. One of the darkest eras in Christian history was the Crusades. This centuries-long series of wars involving Western Christians, Eastern Christians, Jews, and Muslims is often cited as ...
This was crusading. Now imagine Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily. Frederick regains Jerusalem from the Muslims without waging war—it helps that he knows Arabic. He is crowned the King of Jerusalem in 1229, but returns to Europe to find the pope waging war on his lands. This, too, was crusading—at least it was for some ...
Mar 25, 2021 · The traditional location of the Last Supper—the Crusader era “Upper Room,” known also as the Cenacle—has one thing going for it: height. The only location-specific information we can pull from the various Last Supper accounts is that Jesus and his apostles secured a large furnished space, the upper room of an unnamed (and presumably ...
Jul 31, 2023 · The sword, which was preliminarily dated to the Crusader period (c. 1099–1291 CE), featured a blade, fuller, cross guard, and a disk-shaped pommel. Made of iron, the blade measures roughly 35 inches long, with the fuller running around one-third of the blade’s length. The tang measures an additional 4 inches, and the cross guard was around ...
xml. A new investigation into the twelfth-century accounts of the First Crusade, showing their complex relationship with the Bible. The Bible exerted an enormous influence on the crusading movement: it provided medieval Christians with language to describe holy war, spiritual models for crusaders, and justifications for conquests in the East.
Folio 1r (Latin) Upper left: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and the light and the angels. One part of these was devoted to its creator and stays happy with its attachment to him.
