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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As well as re-examining the traditional territory of the political, economic, and religious aspects of the Crusades, The Crusades: The War for the Holy Lands (London: Simon & Schuster, 2010), a ...

On 27 November 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to ...

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.

The first decision made by the Australian Evangelical Alliance (AEA) in 1957 has been hailed as, 'changing the course of Australian history,' when the meeting ... he attended the Crusade and after ...

The Christian identity throughout history has been abused and wielded as a weapon against other cultures and people groups to the detriment of the testimony of Christ. From a persecuted minority to ...