Bonus: Analyze one of the sources you did not analyze yet. Remember that stories
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Bonus: Analyze one of the sources you did not analyze yet. Remember that stories like these became primary ways to make sense of or "know" the other. What does this source argue, suggest about the other, and how exactly? (20 pts) In Source 5 -- one of the saddest sources -- what does it try to argue about Muslims, but what does it actually reveal about Christians?
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The pictures are for response of the question above. The paragraph below is for the other story that they are talking about in the question. The Real Argument in this story is, the author is claiming about the atrocious nature of "Saracens". While providing reasons to believe that the "Saracens" (the Turkish Muslims) were real cruel and atrocious, the author have exaggerated the incidents. This is intentionally done to evoke emotions of sympathy for Christians and their cause, and emotions of anger we against the 'Saracens' and their atrocities in the readers. Also, the facts have not been presented with actual reasonings. Hence, these points make the story to sound false, that is to "ring false". If the cruelty of the 'SARACENS' had been presented accurately without exaggeration and appeal to the emotions, the story would not had been fallacious at presenting its argument about the cruelty committed by the 'SARACENS' against Christians of Jerusalem.
File Edit View History Pp. 121-123- 5. From Fulcher of Chartres, A History o the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095-1127 Soon therefore the Franks gloriously entered the city at noon on the day known as Dies Veneris, the day in which Christ redeemed the whole world on the Cross Amid the sound of trumpets and with everything in an uproar they attacked boldly, shouting"God help us!" At once they raised a banner on the top of the wall. The pagans were completely terrified, for they all exchanged their former for headlong flight through the narrow streets of the city. The more swiftly they fled the more swiftly they were pursued. Count Raymond and his men, who were strongly pressing the offensive in another part of the city, did not notice this until they saw the Saracens jumping off from the top of the wall. When they noticed it they ran with the greatest exultation as fast as they could into the city and joined their companions in pur- suing and slaying their wicked enemies without cessation Some of the latter, Arabs as well as Ethiopians, fled into the Tower of David, and others shut themselves up in the Temples of the Lord and of Solomon. In the courts of these buildings a fierce attack was pressed upon the Saracens. There was no place where they could escape our swordsmen. Many of the Saracens who had climbed to the top of the Temple of Solomon in their flight were shot to death with arrows and fell headlong from the roof. Nearly ten thousand were beheaded in this Temple. If you had been there your feet would have been stained to the ankles in the blood of the slain. What shall I say? None of them were left alive. Neither women nor children were spared. The Spoils Taken by the Christians How astonishing it would have seemed to you to see our squires and footmen, fter they had discovered the trickery of the Saracens, split open the bellies of
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Answer.
The given narrative about the defeat of the Saracens in the Holy city of Jerusalem exemplifies how the creation of an identity of the other as enemy was a primary means of justifying the position of the Christian Catholic church itself. The story begins with the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross for redeeming humankind of its sins. However, in this divine scheme, certain communities, here the non- believer Muslim Saracens, are excluded from the idea of mercy and benevolence. They are described as a heathen and merciless people who taken by their greed for wealth and had ‘occupied’ the Holy Temple. However,The story goes on to make a comparison between the Saracens and other lower grade species in order to perpetuate the popular prejudice against the Medieval age Muslim conquerors as inhumane and it strips them off their human emotions of pain and suffering and instead reifies the violence of the war against the Saracens as ‘just’ and ‘holy’.