Cultural Workshop 'History of the Crusades: Just a Question of Faith?' *NEW*

Teacher: Marc Morató We will follow the development of each of the "official" crusades that reached the eastern Mediterranean in the 11th to 13th centuries. From the apotheosic conquest of Jerusalem in the First Crusade, to the sack of Christian Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. We will also see the situation in which the Islamic and Byzantine worlds were before the arrival of the Crusaders and how they reacted to it. We will meet, in addition to Saladin, other leaders of the area suc…