announced last week that he was “lighting the candle” for his second crusade. (His first: the compact car.) The new crusade, he declared at a New York press conference, is a “progress ...

The couple had two daughters. In 1147, Eleanor accompanied her husband on the Second Crusade, travelling to Constantinople and Jerusalem. The Crusade was a failure and relations between Eleanor ...

In 1147, the Second Crusade began, with the ambition of repeating the 'success' of the First Crusade, and in response to the loss of the County of Edessa in 1144. This year is the subject of our ...

Sparked by a zeal to rid the Holy Lands of "infidels"—meaning Moslems primarily—only the First Crusade achieved any real or lasting success. It established Christian settlements, the so-called ...

Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade, which lasted from 1096 to 1099. Jonathan Phillips examines the origins and motives of the first Crusaders. Jonathan Phillips explains how Damascus, ‘Paradise ...