The healthy response to the history of the Crusades is to keep its memory alive, not bury it. We are more than our traditions and our history, but knowing where you come from is the first step to ...

The film depicts the events surrounding the First Crusade, starting with Sir ... decline of Christian influence in the region. Keywords Crusades, Pope Urban II, Holy Land, Sir William, Mont ...

The First Crusade: A New History (London: Free Press, Simon & Schuster, 2004) also informed Asbridge’s revision of conventional assumptions about the Crusades. Here, he presented an unflinching ...

Many people responded to the Pope's wishes by joining the Crusades - showing this by cutting out red crosses and sewing them onto their tunics. The loss of Jerusalem was a terrible blow to the ...