This year's findings are no different, confirming previously unverified details from nearly thousand-year-old historical accounts of the First Crusade—history that had never been confirmed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nicholas Shakespeare applauds The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan, a vibrant history that shows how Constantinople divided Europe’s Crusaders. By Nicholas Shakespeare 03 ...