The finds confirm some oft-questioned details of historical accounts of the First Crusade, including how a ditch along the city’s southern wall thwarted the attacking siege engines. And this new ...

On this day, in the year 1095, Pope Urban II met with the nobility of western Europe at the Council of Clermont, in what is now southern France, and summoned the First Crusade to fight the forces ...

Asbridge, a British authority on the Crusades, brilliantly re-creates the three-year history of the First Crusade ... of abysmal Continue reading » Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own ...

We discuss the crusade that transformed relations with the Islamic world forever. Guest: Thomas Asbridge, senior lecturer in Medieval History at the University of London. Author of The First ...

The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the ...

screaming and even singing a collection of pour-your-heart-out tracks far superior to the unintelligible litter on “The First Crusade.” The Tattoo The Earth album, recorded in Pontiac ...

Pope Urban II, troubled by geopolitical difficulties--including the spread of Islam and a divided Christendom--launched the first crusade in 1095, urging Christians to unite in the battle to ...