| The Crusades Dates 6 Monday Evenings January 30 - March 5, 2012 7:00 - 8:30 pm Location ( MAP ) Fleming Room St. Agnes Academy 9000 Bellaire Blvd. Houston TX 77036 Registration By Mail: Registration Form Online: Pay by Credit Card |
Dr. Neidinger holds degrees from Fordham University, University of Madrid, and Rice University.
He is an archaeologist with the Texas Foundation for Archaeological & Historical Research
(TFAHR), and has been directing excavations in the Mediterranean area for the past 30 years.
During this time he has also lectured extensively at universities, colleges, adult education programs,
and churches across the state of Texas. He is currently working on TFAHR archaeological
excavations in the Republic of Macedonia. For information on Dr. Neidinger’s current and
upcoming projects, please visit www.tfahr.org.
He is an archaeologist with the Texas Foundation for Archaeological & Historical Research
(TFAHR), and has been directing excavations in the Mediterranean area for the past 30 years.
During this time he has also lectured extensively at universities, colleges, adult education programs,
and churches across the state of Texas. He is currently working on TFAHR archaeological
excavations in the Republic of Macedonia. For information on Dr. Neidinger’s current and
upcoming projects, please visit www.tfahr.org.
Pope Urban II heard tales of a hermit boasting a letter from the angels that
urged a holy war to recapture Jerusalem from the infidel; he was apprised of
reports that Christian pilgrims were being robbed and murdered on the way
to Jerusalem; and the emperor in far-off Constantinople was begging him for
western knights to fight the Grand Seljuk. All the while, the Pope’s own
Christian warriors were busy slaughtering one another. Only one endeavor
could rescue the emperor, protect the pilgrims, and save Jerusalem: a
Crusade, a Christian holy war that would roll back the Islamic conquests of
the past four centuries and recapture the Holy Land for the Cross. And so
began two centuries of vicious warfare that would change forever the
relationship between Christians and Moslems.
The lectures will be richly illustrated with images, and course material will
include detailed lecture notes, maps and plans. SUPPLEMENTARY
MATERIALS: click HERE for images of maps and tables used in Dr.
Neidinger's lectures.
LECTURES:
urged a holy war to recapture Jerusalem from the infidel; he was apprised of
reports that Christian pilgrims were being robbed and murdered on the way
to Jerusalem; and the emperor in far-off Constantinople was begging him for
western knights to fight the Grand Seljuk. All the while, the Pope’s own
Christian warriors were busy slaughtering one another. Only one endeavor
could rescue the emperor, protect the pilgrims, and save Jerusalem: a
Crusade, a Christian holy war that would roll back the Islamic conquests of
the past four centuries and recapture the Holy Land for the Cross. And so
began two centuries of vicious warfare that would change forever the
relationship between Christians and Moslems.
The lectures will be richly illustrated with images, and course material will
include detailed lecture notes, maps and plans. SUPPLEMENTARY
MATERIALS: click HERE for images of maps and tables used in Dr.
Neidinger's lectures.
LECTURES:
- Journey to Jerusalem. Shortly after the death of Christ, Christians
began visiting the sites of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, and
making pilgrimages to what survived the desecration of the city by
Hadrian, the fall of Rome, and the destruction of Jerusalem by the
Persians. - The First Clash between the Cross and the Crescent. Within a
century of Mohammed’s death, Islamic armies had conquered land
stretching from the Pyrenees to the Himalayas. The Mediterranean
had ceased being a Christian lake. And the initial tolerance of the early
Arab empire soon withered. - “God Wills It!” The First Crusade. Despite overwhelming odds, a
motley collection of ill-equipped, poorly prepared Christian armies
fought their way through hostile lands across Europe and the Middle
East to eventually conquer Jerusalem. - Barbarossa, Philippe-Auguste, Lion-Heart and Saladin. Some of
the greatest kings of Christian Europe ventured east in a futile attempt
to save the Christian kingdoms of the Holy Land from the premier
warrior of Islam, a Kurd by the name of Salah-ed-Din. - The Unholy Crusade: The Fourth Crusade. By hook and crook, the
most astounding Doge of Venice, the cunning, ninety-year old Enrico
Dandolo, diverted the Crusade from the Middle East to conquer
Constantinople and carve out a Roman Catholic kingdom in the heart
of the Orthodox Byzantine Empire. - In the Aftermath of the Religious Wars. The last of the Crusader
strongholds in Palestine was lost to the Moslems in 1291; the
Crusader states had lasted for less than two hundred years. The
Crusades were over, but the Crusading orders of the Templars and
Hospitallers would outlive the cause for which they were founded.
About the Lecturer
Dr. William J. Neidinger
Dr. William J. Neidinger
| FEE FOR "THE CRUSADES" $75 per person (includes lecture notebook) |
A New Lecture Series by
Dr. William J. Neidinger
Dr. William J. Neidinger
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS:
click HERE for images of maps and
tables used in Dr. Neidinger's lectures.
click HERE for images of maps and
tables used in Dr. Neidinger's lectures.