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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 ...

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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 ...

An idea promoted by Pope Urban II at the end of the 11th century continues to resonate in modern politics. Jonathan Phillips traces the 800-year history of ‘Crusade’ and its power as a concept that ...

Through examining both often-overlooked aspects of the Crusades and one of the most celebrated key players of the medieval age, Asbridge presents a history that decentres the traditional Eurocentric ...

Early Crusades, gray history map of the first Crusades to Holy Land Early Crusades, gray history map. First four Crusades, a series of religious wars to the Holy Land, to conquer Jerusalem and its ...

Launched by Pope Urban II in 1095, the Crusades comprised a series of eight or nine major expeditions from western Europe to the Holy Land, continuing into the 15th century. In 1147, the Second ...

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 ...

Prof. Thomas F. Madden, Godspy.com Hat tip to Paul J. Cella. Prof. Madden’s review of the history of the Crusades is well worth reading. In general, his conclusions are unexceptionable and it is ...