The Crusades: The War for the Holy Lands (London: Simon & Schuster, 2010), a 784-page single-volume history published in 2010, sought to: present a new, rich history focus on Latin and Muslim ...
The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an ...
Concentric castles - with two curtain (outer) walls - were developed during the crusades, and these ideas were used to improve and fortify castles back in Europe. Islamic armies had used gunpowder ...
threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the result was unlike anything ever seen before. #EpicHistoryTV #Crusades ...