The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising ...
The First Crusade: A New History (London: Free Press, Simon & Schuster, 2004) also informed Asbridge’s revision of conventional assumptions about the Crusades. Here, he presented an unflinching ...
Fatimid Hoards as Evidence of the First Crusade and the Establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem ... Historia Ierosolimitana: History of the Journey to Jerusalem (S.B. Edgington ed. and trans.).
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 ...