IBIdiot, look at the bright side. You got your ass handed to you, but you're still in possession of it. Think about how much blissful pleasure you can have with your own ass... Originally Posted by Yssup RiderYou'd be the incontinent ass here, you Mussulman-luvin, Hitler worshipping, lying, hypocritical, racist, cum-gobbling golem fucktard, HDDB, DEM.
Wrong again, you freelance faggot from Obama's hometown of Chicago.Told you that your elementary school kiddy text doesn't count as a scholarly source, you "#Grubered", freelance faggot, Odumbo Minion from Arkansas. And what does your stupid-ass post? Your source, www.ducksters.com Middle Ages for Kids: Reconquista and Islam in Spain, is a fuckin' children's educational site, you "#Grubered", freelance faggot, Odumbo Minion from Arkansas. Modern scholarship trumps your fifth grade kiddy lesson, you "#Grubered", freelance faggot, Odumbo Minion from Arkansas:
"The Reconquista ("reconquest")[a] is a period of approximately 781 years in the history of the Iberian Peninsula, after the Islamic conquest in 711 to the fall of Granada, the last Islamic state on the peninsula, in 1492"
The Reconquista and the Crusades are separate entities in the annals of history. Modern Medieval scholars can all get together and suck your dick for all I care. Won't change anything. The reconquista was a battle for the Iberian Peninsula.
"During the latter part of the Reconquista it was considered a holy war similar to the Crusades."
Similar to, but not the, Crusades. This isn't a typo. You're just fucking wrong. No one regards them as the same thing outside of some liberal college fucking campus shitstain. Originally Posted by WombRaider
The argument is clear: the precedent of crusade as a religious war can be found in the Spanish Reconquest (notably at Barbastro, 1063). The concept was then elaborated by the Papacy for the first and second crusades, when the attack on Islam was envisaged as a double offensive on both sides of the Mediterranean. When the crusades to the Holy Land became less frequent, Spanish crusades were at their apogee, the subject of bulls from several popes, and concentrating the efforts of native and foreign fighters. During all this period, the indulgences granted to the 'fighting pilgrims' were the same as those granted to those going to the Holy Land. Pilgrimage to Santiago was very closely linked to crusade in Spain, and to the ideology of pilgrimage/crusade to the Holy Land. The papacy always tried to keep Spanish knights preoccupied with engagements in their own territory, while offering the Church and faithful the possibility to finance crusading endeavours throughout the eastern and western territories.
In this part of the work, the author uses papal bulls extensively to demonstrate that those issued for the Holy Land were very similar in their clauses to those issued for war against Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula. He relies heavily on the pioneering work by José Goņi Gaztambide, Historia de la bula de cruzada en Espaņa, (Vitoria: Editorial del Seminario, 1958), which is rounded out with references to other primary sources... The stress is always placed on the fact that the papacy transformed the Reconquest into a crusade. (Institute of Historical Research: London))
Originally Posted by WombRaider
Originally Posted by lustylad
