The knights of the Crusades were not a single group but rather a variety of orders with distinct purposes and codes. While ...

Is there a historical episode less understood by the general public and more urgently in need of clarification than the Crusades? To some on the right, the Crusades prefigured the modern wars that ...

The Crusades are often painted with a broad and simplistic brush—but how accurate are the popular narratives? In this video, ...

Jonathan Phillips reviews God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman. It is more than 50 years since Sir Steven Runciman's epic three-volume A History of the Crusades was first ...

Field reporters in this history-as-news program trace the events of the 12th c. Crusades. In this episode, viewers see the history-as-news treatment of the 12th century Crusades. Many feel the ...

History can tell us a lot about the Crusades, the series of religious wars fought between 1095 and 1291, in which Christian invaders tried to claim the Near East. But the DNA of nine 13th century ...