After the First Crusade seized Jerusalem, the Crusader states faced relentless war to hold their ground. From the clash at Ramla to campaigns against powerful Saracen armies, this video recounts ...

Luyster has no illusion that the Crusades, waged from 1095 to 1291, were anything less than major confrontations. ... known as Saracen cloth, used even as vestments for Mass, ...