The Crusades″ Source Writing Essay

The Crusades″ Source Writin" rel="nofollow">ing Essay copied and pasted from the human record textbook the pages that need to be referenced. Read attached files and answer the followin" rel="nofollow">ing essay questions: The Crusades were a long and complicated series of conflicts that occurred not just in" rel="nofollow">in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, but also in" rel="nofollow">in Constantin" rel="nofollow">inople and eastern Europe, as well as in" rel="nofollow">in Spain" rel="nofollow">in and the Iberian Penin" rel="nofollow">insula. The various sources on pp. 323-332 of the Human Record, show us some of the diversity of the players and reasons behin" rel="nofollow">ind the Crusades. One important overarchin" rel="nofollow">ing theme is the idea of just war. The theory of just war (developed over time in" rel="nofollow">in the Middle Ages, from the 4th through the 12th c.) had three parts (referred to in" rel="nofollow">in Latin" rel="nofollow">in): 1) jus ad bellum, which concerns the justice of resortin" rel="nofollow">ing to war in" rel="nofollow">in the first place; 2) jus in" rel="nofollow">in bello, which concerns the justice of conduct within" rel="nofollow">in war, after it has begun; and 3) jus post bellum, which concerns the justice of peace agreements and the termin" rel="nofollow">ination phase of war. How do the various writers deal with these concepts? For in" rel="nofollow">instance, how does Urban II′s speech argue for the justice of fightin" rel="nofollow">ing the Muslims in" rel="nofollow">in the Holy Land? How did Innocent III′s letter to the Crusaders deal with the concept of just war again" rel="nofollow">inst the Orthodox Christians of Byzantium? Do these arguments seem valid?