Is there a historical episode less understood by the general public and more urgently in need of clarification than the Crusades? To some on the right, the Crusades prefigured the modern wars that ...

(RNS) — An 800-year-old puzzle about a set of 13th-century floor tiles has added to historians’ thinking about the relationship of Europeans and Arabs at the time of the Crusades. Amanda Luyster, ...

This article originally appeared on AlterNet. When we think about medieval Europe, we tend to think about kings ruling with iron fists, about Christian crusaders purifying Jerusalem with the blood of ...

The film depicts the events surrounding the First Crusade, starting with Sir William of Mont breth and his sons, Philip and Steven, who respond to Pope Urban II's call to liberate the Holy Land from ...

The knights of the Crusades were not a single group but rather a variety of orders with distinct purposes and codes. While ...

Jerusalem, however, was the Cru­sades’ one region of conspicuous failure. Christian forces could hold neither that holy city nor the territorial footholds they had secured throughout the Levant. In a ...