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History of the Crusader Campaigns

Course Code	: TAR235
Course Type	: Area Elective
Couse Group	: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language	: Turkish
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 2
Prt.	: 0
Credit	: 2
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 3

Objectives of the Course

This course deals with the political, religious, military and cultural aspects of the Crusades that started in 1095 and continued until 1291. In this course, it is aimed to develop students' ability to analyze historical events in multiple ways by evaluating the political and socio-economic situation in Europe before the Crusades, the reasons for the emergence of the crusades, the development and results of the crusades in terms of both Europe and the Turkish-Islamic world.

Course Content

It examines the political, religious, economic and cultural reasons for the organization of war for nearly two centuries from a historical perspective. The development of the campaigns is described in a chronological framework. The Latin states established in the Near East, their relations with Byzantium and the Turkish-Islamic world, the reasons for the emergence of military orders, especially the Templar, Hospitalier and Teutonic knights, and their activities in the region, the effects of the results of these campaigns on both Europe and the Turkish-Islamic world are evaluated.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Lec. Muhittin ÇEKEN

Learning Outcomes

1.	to be able to explain importance of the Crusades as one of the some important events of History of Humanity.
2.	To be able to realize the fact that the Crusades was not a merely inter religions struggle in the light of the first hand sources.
3.	To be able to explain the Crusades as a chain of events in which huge masses were mobilized with ideological motives which were camouflaged with religious mottos.
4.	To be able to explain the political and military relations created by the Crusades in the Near East geography and to evaluate these relations in terms of local people and states in the region.
5.	To be able to compare Western and Eastern sources about the Crusades in terms of plot and evaluate them from a critical point of view.
6.	To be able to evaluate the Crusades in a comprehensive and objective way in terms of Turkish history and world history in terms of its results.

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	S. Runciman, Haçlı Seferleri Tarihi I-III Ciltler, çeviren Prof. Dr. Fikret Işıltan, Ankara, TTK Yayınları, 1992–1998.
2.	I. Demirkent, Haçlı Seferleri Tarihi: Makaleler, Bildiriler, İncelemeler, İstanbul, Dünya Kitapları, 2007.
3.	P.M. Holt, Haçlılar Çağı: 11. Yüzyıldan 1517’ye Yakındoğu, Çeviri Özden Arıkan, İstanbul, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 1986.
4.	C. Morrisson, Haçlılar, Türkçesi Nermin Acar, Ankara, Dost Kitabevi, 2005.
5.	E. Altan, İkinci Haçlı Seferi (1147–1148), Ankara, TTK Yayınları, 2003.
6.	Uluslararası Haçlı Seferleri Sempozyumu: 23-25 Haziran 1997, İstanbul, Ankara, TTK Yayınları, 1999.
7.	Carole Hillenbrand, Müslümanların Gözünden Haçlı Seferleri, Çev. Nurettin Elhüseyni, Alfa Tarih İstanbul 2012.
8.	Peter Tudebodus, Bir Tanığın Kaleminden Birinci Haçlı Seferi, çev. Süleyman Genç, Kronik Yay. İstanbul 2019.
9.	Christopher Tyerman, Bir Haçlı Seferi Nasıl Planlanır?, Çev. Murat Çaylı, Selenge Yay. İstanbul 2021.
10.	Anonim Haçlı Tarihi, çev. Ergin Ayan, Selenge Yay., İstanbul 2013.
11.	14. Yüzyılda Haçlılar ve Türkler, Ed. Altan Çetin, Selenge Yay. İstanbul 2023.
12.	Christopher Tyerman, Haçlıların Dünyası, Çev. Doğan Mert Demir, Kronik Yay., İstanbul 2024.
13.	Sevtap Gölgesiz Karaca, Kudüs Haçlı Krallığı, TTK, Ankara 2020.
14.	Amin Maaouf, Arapların Gözünden Haçlı Seferleri, Çev. Ali Berktay, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul 2004.
15.	Jonathan Riley Smith-Susanna A. Throop, Haçlı Seferleri, Çev. Kadir Pürde, Ketebe Yayınları, İstanbul 2025.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Informing about the course subject, object and borders, to give bibliographical informations, concerning course content.

Week 2 - Theoretical

The political situation in the Near East in the period leading up to the Crusades

Week 3 - Theoretical

The formation of crusader thought and the first call

Week 4 - Theoretical

The First Crusade and the struggles that took place

Week 5 - Theoretical

Latin states founded in the Near East

Week 6 - Theoretical

Changing political and military balances in the Near East after the establishment of the Crusader states

Week 7 - Theoretical

The purpose of the establishment of religious-military orders and their role in the Crusades

Week 8 - Theoretical

The capture of Urfa by Muslims and the beginning of the Second Crusade

Week 9 - Theoretical

The capture of Jerusalem by Saladin Ayyubid and the Third Crusade

Week 10 - Theoretical

The Fourth Crusade and its consequences

Week 11 - Theoretical

The Fifth Crusade and its consequences

Week 12 - Theoretical

Sixth, Seventh, Eighth Crusades and the fall of Acre

Week 13 - Theoretical

General Evaluation of Crusades

Week 14 - Theoretical

Christian Europe's efforts to resurrect the Crusades

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Midterm Examination	1	%40
Final Examination	1	%60

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	14	1	2	42
Midterm Examination	1	12	2	14
Final Examination	1	16	2	18
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				74

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PÇ-1	PÇ-2	PÇ-3	PÇ-4	PÇ-5	PÇ-6	PÇ-7	PÇ-8	PÇ-9	PÇ-10	PÇ-11	PÇ-12
OÇ-1	5	4		4				4
OÇ-2		3					4
OÇ-3				4		3			4	5	4
OÇ-4						3				5	4
OÇ-5			2
OÇ-6				3			4			4

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