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stretched from stretched from India, in South Asia, to Spain, in Western Europe, and included Jerusalem and the Holy Land close ... is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period ...

A guide to the key moments in the history of the Crusades ... The Capture of Jerusalem The capture of the Holy City by the forces of the First Crusade was a victory against the odds, but its legacy ...

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 ...

In the West, he is most often depicted as the antagonist – if a noble and revered one – to the crusader king, Richard the ...

In his latest book, Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands, Jones tells the the history of the Crusades, the sequence of religious wars that led to the founding of the Knights ...

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 ...

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 ...