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McCarthy, Joseph M. – Online Submission, 2010
The "foreign languages" considered in this paper are the non-European contemporary tongues whose study was encouraged by the Crusades and related projects for recovering the Holy Land from the Muslims, Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac (Chaldaic), of which Arabic held pride of place. No-one was more significant in advancing the study and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Medieval History, Role
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Metzger, Scott Alan – Social Education, 2005
The attacks of September 11th, followed by U.S. military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, have brought greater attention to the simmering conflict between Islam and the West--a conflict most brutally played out historically during the Crusades. The series of holy wars for control of Jerusalem and the Holy Land stretched over centuries--from 1096…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Films, Peace
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Beattie, Nicholas – Journal of Moral Education, 1979
After defining three broad positions adopted in the long-standing French polemic about secularism and education, the author describes how traditional boundaries between conflicting positions have been blurred by interventionist policies in education as well as by the evolution of Catholic attitudes. He illustrates his comments from recent…
Descriptors: Catholics, Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Values, Parochial Schools