Many people responded to the Pope's wishes by joining the Crusades - showing this by cutting out red crosses and sewing them onto their tunics. The loss of Jerusalem was a terrible blow to the ...

A guide to the key moments in the history of the Crusades. Was the First Crusade really a war against Islam? It is widely believed that the Crusades were a clash of civilisations. But a closer ...

Amongst some Christian circles in particular, there appears to be an angry reaction to the idea that the Crusades and ISIS's caliphate could be compared on a similar level morally. So what were the ...

The Crusades, the Inquisition, the Blood Libel, and Pogroms shaped centuries of Jewish persecution in Christian Europe. While ...

It established Christian settlements, the so-called "Crusader States," which endured for a century or so along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. The remaining Crusades were failures of one sort ...

The Crusades have been a fixture on school curricula for a long time ... and narratives and explanatory notes. 77 items dated from c.1189 to 1536 were used, sourced from institutions including the ...

and only through sheer force of numbers were they eventually able to triumph. Pope Urban died in 1099, two weeks after the fall of Jerusalem but before news of the Christian victory made it back to ...

Abaddon the Despoiler has led 13 Black Crusades. But which ones were the most important? That’s what we’re here to discuss! We could have just made a quick list numbered 1-13 and ranked the Black ...