In the Middle Ages, the Islamic world close Islamic worldSocieties ... priest Peter the Hermit who is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period, peasants had to give 10 per ...

The Second Crusade was a response to the call by Pope Eugenius III for Western Europeans to embark on an armed expedition to take back the city of Edessa. That city had been captured by the First ...

His main area of focus was Islamic history and the history of the Crusades in the Middle Ages. His book, ‘The First Crusade: Text and Documents’, provided new material for researchers and shed ...

The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with ... threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks.

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 ...

another of Islam’s rivals, into extinction. ~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.

According to experts and historical texts ... century onward in Spain or more fervently during the Crusades." Yaqeen Institute, an Islamic research organization, writes that Muhammad began ...