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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Crusades have inspired a vast amount of writing ... Histories about the journey to the East spread like wildfire, with a first wave written by (people who seem to have been) participants ...