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 ...

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 ...

Although far less cinematically prolific than other historical wars, the Crusades have still produced many great movies, from ...

"Crusaders on High Horses" will be the topic at the annual Crader Lecture to be presented Tuesday at Southeast Missouri State University by Saint Louis University professor of history Thomas Madden.

University of London historian and History Channel contributor Phillips (The Second Crusade) superbly condenses the four centuries of the Crusades into a single, easily accessible volume. Islamic as ...

A brief discussion of the mindset that existed among medieval Europeans which inspired the Crusades movement. Several ...

MEDIEVAL HISTORY shows up on the page in two ways. One is obvious: it is written in pen and ink on vellum and parchment. This sort of history tends to be about battles and bloodshed, conquerors and ...

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 ...