The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an ...

The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the First Crusade continues with the events following the Byzantine defeat at Manzikert in 1071 and the rise of Alexios I Komnenos. As ...

For others, it was their first crusade. For those of us from Harvard, reading period had made it easy to respond to latent activism. McCarthy had become something of an intellectual's cause celebre.

However, the deposition of a large share of these so-called ‘Fatimid hoards,’ 15 out of the 29, are in fact important material evidence of the arrival of the armies of the First Crusade in 1099 in ...

1095 – Christianity was split between East and West. The Papacy itself was under threat. But Pope Urban II had a plan which would lead to centuries of Christian and Muslim bloodshed echoing down ...

Similar to Age of Empires 2, Stronghold Crusader, and Total War Medieval 2, Knights of the Crusades is a new medieval RTS out ...

Recalling a particularly difficult moment, the Bishop shared how the church’s first crusade in Aba, held in 1987, ended in failure. “With a failed crusade in Aba in 1987, today we have 87 ...

Were the Baltic Crusades a religious mission or just violent tourism? Novelist Wojciech Zembaty explores the dark history of the first English visitors to Poland, in turn examining how the bloodlust ...