Chivalry Quote by Joseph Jacobs

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

— Frank Herbert

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

— J. G. Stedman

“Many critics of the Crusades would seem to suppose that after the Muslims had overrun a major portion of Christendom, they should have been…

— Rodney Stark

“TO BE “THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it” was the primary function of the Crusades,”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“.. The slaughter lasted the best part of two days. When it was over, the crusade leaders went in solemn procession to the church…

— Geoffrey Hindley

“The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The…

— Rodney Stark

A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and…

— Arthur L. Williams, Jr

The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was…

— Henri Pirenne

The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the…

— Herbert J. Muller

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we commonly think…

— Philip Jenkins

“For more than a thousand years this idea of the unity of Christendom, of Christendom as a sort of vast Amphictyony, whose members even…

— H.G. Wells