“Christians, hasten to help your brothers in the East, for they are being attacked. Arm for the rescue of Jerusalem under your captain Christ. Wear his cross as your badge. If you are killed your sins will be pardoned,” Pope Urban II. The Crusades was a series of wars in the 1000s to 1300s between European Christians and the Arabic Muslims over the Holy Lands, especially over the city of Jerusalem. The Crusades had a major impact with the State and Church in the High Middle Ages as it led to territorial expansion, a new economy, and the establishment of a monastic society. The Crusades had a major impact on territorial expansion with the State and Church in the High Middle Ages by it resulting in the formation of the crusader states in Levant, or the eastern Mediterranean. It was initially governed, and in …show more content…
The monastic society is a chivalric order with military purpose established as Catholic religious societies during the Crusades for protection of Christians against violent persecution of the Islamic conquests in the Holy Land, Iberian Peninsula, as well as by Baltic paganism in Eastern Europe. This term is commonly known as a military order. Those who were involved in the military order were Knights Hospitaller, the Knights Templar in Outremer, as well as the Teutonic Knights in the Baltics. Many military orders were suppressed by the Holy See in Rome around the end of the Middle Ages, with few new recognised establishments afterwards. However, some persisted longer in its original functions, only later evolving into purely ceremonial chivalric orders with charitable aims in modern times, such as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, both Papal orders of knighthood conferred still today. Notably, the Teutonic Order became exclusively monastic except a limited associated confraternity of honorary