A 19th century engraving of a scene in Claremont, France shows Pope Urban II standing behind the priest Peter the Hermit who is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period ...

The fact that Jerusalem, Bethlehem and other holy Christian locations were “in the hands of infidels” was a major point of concern to both the Roman catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox ...

The remaining Crusades were failures of one sort or another and, instead, contributed to the heightened tensions still visible in the Middle East today. In particular, the Fourth Crusade which ended ...

The first character of the crusades is their universality; all Europe concurred in them; they were the first European event. Before the crusades, Europe had never been moved by the same sentiment, or ...

(The estate of Philip Davis and the Castle Studies Group) Among the warriors and pilgrims who arrived in the Middle East during the Crusades were European immigrants eager to begin a new life in a ...

The Crusades have been a fixture on school curricula for a long ... 77 items dated from c.1189 to 1536 were used, sourced from institutions including the Bodleian Library, the British Library, ...

mobilising clerics to drum up support throughout Europe for the crusade against the Muslims. All told, between 60,000 and 100,000 people responded to Pope Urban's call to march on Jerusalem. Not all ...

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 ...

The Centre’s interests embrace the history and ideology of the crusading movement, the history and archaeology of the lands conquered by the crusaders, the impact of the crusades on those lands and ...

The Crusade, led by David Riley (chair of Jarrow council ... where they would present a petition signed by 12,000 residents of Jarrow. The marchers were hosted by supporters across the country, and ...