Download A Macat Analysis of Jonathan Riley-Smith's The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading AudioBook Free
In the 1960s, English historian Jonathan Riley-Smith first commenced learning the knightly purchases of the center Ages that made after the First Crusade. With the late 1970s, he had begun writing catalogs from a "revisionist" viewpoint, challenging the normal belief that the Crusades were motivated by fanaticism, and were made to plunder the Holy Lands. With an level, Riley-Smith's 1986 reserve The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading overturned this previously performed view. Riley-Smith came to his conclusions after learning handwritten documents performed in churches across Western Europe, in which Crusaders described their personal known reasons for heading out on the "holy battle." Then pioneered the use of computer spreadsheets to cross-reference data on specific Crusaders and their own families, which allowed him to paint a more complete picture than had been seen previously. He came to the conclusion that most Crusaders were actually motivated by religious devotion and a genuine need to atone for past sins.
