Crusades
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The name given retrospectively to a series of campaigns preached by the papacy initially for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims, but from the mid-12th century extending into other... read more |
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What did medieval contemporaries think of military orders such as the Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights? Helen Nicholson investigates. |
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Richard Cavendish describes the launch of the Second Crusade on May 19th, 1147. Published in History Today, Volume: 47 Issue: 5, 1997
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Barber examines the medieval Christian view of Muslims and Islam. Casting Islam and Muslims as the enemy was crucial in the Crusades, and the context of conflict has colored Christian-Islamic relations since. |
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Robert Irwin on how Islam saw the Christian invaders. |
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Nigel Saul sets the scene for our major new series on the crusades of the eleventh century. |
 What did medieval contemporaries think of military orders such as the Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights? Helen Nicholson investigates. |
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Jonathon Riley-Smith explores the historiography of the Crusades. |
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Robin Fedden pays a historical visit to the monumental Frankish fortress, symbol of Christian dominance in the Holy Land for over a century. |
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