5 sentences with 'crusading'
Example sentences and phrases with the word crusading and other words derived from it.
• « Many other crusades followed; popes would continue to authorise large-scale official invasions of the Middle East until the late 13th century, and the efforts of Christian knights in Spain during the Reconquista continued the crusading tradition for centuries. »
• « As transporters, traders and bankers for the crusading expeditions, it was the northern Italians who reaped the greatest financial benefit from the invasions. »
• « With the subsequent invasions of South and Central America by the Spanish, the crusading spirit of spreading Catholicism and seizing territory at the point of the sword lived on. »
• « That crusading ideology was easily adapted to the purposes of conquering vast American territories and forcibly converting the native inhabitants of the Americas to Christianity. »
• « Some of that abuse arose from the crusading tradition, but some of it also arose from the discomfort many of the Spanish felt at discovering people who had obviously never been in contact with the Christian world. »