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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...