The crusades – the long series of wars fought between 1096 and 1492 under the direction of medieval popes against a wide range of enemies of many different faiths, including Sunni and Shia Muslims – ...

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 mob that forced its way into the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6 carried the usual Trump 2020 flags and “Don’t tread on me” banners. But scattered through the crowd were images that caught the ...

A series of holy wars against Islam led by power-mad popes and fought by religious fanatics? Think again. With the possible exception of Umberto Eco, medieval scholars are not used to getting much ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The so-called Islamic State (ISIS) continues to use its online propaganda magazine to appropriate the Crusades of ...

When President Bush first declared the war on terrorism soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, he made the mistake of using the word "crusade" to describe it. That was much condemned in the Arab world, ...