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 ...

“The World of the Crusades: An Illustrated History” by Christopher Tyerman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 525 pages, $35 (hardcover). General works about the crusades abound, yet “The World ...

Field reporters in this history-as-news program trace the events of the 12th c. Crusades. In this episode, viewers see the history-as-news treatment of the 12th century Crusades. Many feel the ...

History can tell us a lot about the Crusades, the series of religious wars fought between 1095 and 1291, in which Christian invaders tried to claim the Near East. But the DNA of nine 13th century ...

📜 History of Saladin & the 3rd Crusade: Defending Jerusalem - And so we come to the negotiations between Saladin and Richard the Lionheart, where some of the best-known stories of the Crusades will ...

The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising ...

(UNDATED) The Crusades lasted close to 200 years and constituted one of the pivotal events in world history. To most Americans, they might as well be a fable like “The Lord of the Rings” _ just not ...