Spanning most of the High Middle Ages (1050-1300 CE), a series of military expeditions called the Crusades was launched from Christian Europe against the peoples of the Near East. Sparked by a zeal to ...

For Jewish people, Christians and Muslims ... behind the priest Peter the Hermit who is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period, peasants had to give 10 per cent of what they ...

The First Crusade has come to exemplify the religious fervour that enveloped Christendom, the policies of an aggressive Papacy, and the newly spawned concept of Holy War – which was dramatically ...

The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising ...

Crusaders believed they were carrying out their God's work by taking part in military campaigns to take control of the Holy Land for Christianity. What were the consequences of the Crusades?

A Modern History of the Crusades (Random House, 2010). On October 2, 1187, the demoralized Christian defenders of Jerusalem watched Saladin, the ruler of the Muslim Near East, enter the city.