The First Crusade was a religious campaign launched by European Christians in AD 1095 in order to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims. However, …
What were the causes of the First Crusade?
The First Crusade was a religious campaign launched by European Christians in AD 1095 in order to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims. However, the real reasons behind why it was launched still hotly debated between historians for centuries. What makes the discussion so difficult is that fact that, at the time, the Crusade was considered to be a religious pilgrimage but turned into a vast military invasion...
On a sweltering day in August 1071, the rolling plains near Manzikert became the stage for a confrontation that would dramatically alter the course of …
The Holy Grail, said to be the cup from which Jesus Christ drank at the Last Supper, has been sought after by knights and scholars for almost 1000 …
Information about the Middles Ages, the Crusades and feudal Europe.