LOUDONVILLE − The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum continues its Speaker Series with a look at the Crusades that defined the Middle Ages, and its modern legacies. The program is slated for 7 p.m. Monday, March ...

(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, ...

A lot of people claim the Crusades were “just about greed,” but that’s a modern shortcut that doesn’t match the medieval ...

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 ...

When President Bush first declared the war on terrorism soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, he made the mistake of using the word "crusade" to describe it. That was much condemned in the Arab world, ...

Aleks Pluskowski has received funding from the European Research Council. Alex Brown and Rowena Banerjea do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...

This film explores European life from 1200 to 1500, highlighting the significance of art in documenting this era. It discusses the three main institutions of medieval Europe: the Church, the Emperors, ...