The crusades – the long series of wars fought between 1096 and 1492 under the direction of medieval popes against a wide range of enemies of many different faiths, including Sunni and Shia Muslims – ...

(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 was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The so-called Islamic State (ISIS) continues to use its online propaganda magazine to appropriate the Crusades of ...

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 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 ...

Few military campaigns changed the course of history more than the long, bloody Holy Crusades that lasted for two centuries.

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 ...

The rhetoric of Osama bin Laden and other Islamic radicals, the current strife in the Middle East and a recent big-budget movie (Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven) have all helped bring about a renewed ...