SAINT George’s Day is a day of celebration across England, as people celebrate the history of the country.  Normally ...

The medieval period witnessed attempts by Christians to seize the Holy Lands in Palestine, known as the Crusades, from the 10th to the 13th centuries CE. The Crusades were military campaigns organized ...

Chris Wickham is one of the best-known Marxist historians of the Middle Ages. In his book The Donkey and the Boat, he offers an ambitious account of the internal dynamics of the precapitalist ...

A few years after that, Prussian Catholics invaded as part of the Northern Crusades ... rates were high in medieval Novgorod, and even children of relatively modest background learned and ...

The film depicts the events surrounding the First Crusade, starting with Sir William of Mont breth and his sons, Philip and Steven, who respond to Pope Urban II's call to liberate the Holy Land ...

Despite our familiarity with violence legitimised by religion, the medieval crusades continue to perplex modern audiences. Since at least the Enlightenment, the notion of warfare as an act of ...