The term “Crusade” has always been an anachronism—a way of looking back at complex, often disconnected movements with a wide array of motivations, membership, tactics and results and organizing them ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For the modern western reader, the term “crusades” evokes pious Christian monarchs riding and sailing to the Middle ...