To those who feel nerves before attending a party or have to overcome a sense of anxiety before guests arrive, medieval ...

Godefroy de Bouillon, the leader of the First Crusade, is depicted leading the siege of a Saracen town, c.1099. (Image credit: Getty / Print Collector) The most famous Crusades were the first three.

The long-term causes of the First Crusade lie in the planting fields of Europe. From the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D., much of Europe lived on the edge of starvation.

The First Crusade A noble mission to free the holy land, or a gigantic expedition of plunder and murder? Some 900 years ago, 10,000 Christians answered the pope's call and set off for Jerusalem ...

Crusades-inflected propaganda has become virtually indistinguishable from alt-right memes on Reddit, 8chan, and elsewhere. On YouTube you can find frightening videos like “Deus Vult - The ...

The First Crusade (1095-1099) – the massive expedition that marched across Europe and the Middle East to capture Jerusalem – underlines some of the difficulties surrounding this toxic assessment.

People have been trying to understand the meaning of the so-called "Crusades" since they happened more than 900 years ago. A new book by historian Jay Rubenstein may finally get us closer to that ...