and summoned the First Crusade to fight the forces of Islam in the east. The crusade would be launched the following year and saw a brutal military victory in the city of Jerusalem in July of 1099.

By any reckoning, the First Crusade was a long shot ... desire to purify Christian society so that it might be worthy of victory in the East. Crusading in the late twelfth century, therefore ...

As it happened, the First Crusade was amazingly ... Shouldn’t they celebrate the crusades as a great victory? Until the nineteenth century that is precisely what they did.

JERUSALEM — Exactly 920 years after Jerusalem fell in the First Crusade, archaeologists say ... key twist in the Crusaders’ account of their victory. A glittering piece of Fatimid Muslim ...

Nearly a thousand years ago, European Christians embarked on what became known as the First Crusade: an unprecedented ... They won a shocking victory – but it didn't last.

When Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade in a speech before a French crowd at Clermont ... many of Jerusalem’s priceless antiquities were lost in the chaos that followed victory.) What is ...

Asbridge, a British authority on the Crusades, brilliantly re-creates the three-year history of the First Crusade ... fighters and concluded that victory was ordained for the survivors in the ...