Throughout the 12th century, Danish forces raided the northern coasts of Germany and Poland time and time again. The aim was to fight the region’s pillaging pagans, the Wends, a mixture of tribes that ...

The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land Thomas Asbridge, . . Ecco, $34.99 (767pp) ISBN 978-0-06-078728-8 ...

They had seized Syria and the Holy Land only 20 years previously. By the 1090s, the Turks had begun to convert to Islam but many retained elements of their former beliefs.

The First Crusade and the Capture of Jerusalem, 1095-99 ... Take the road to the Holy Sepulchre, rescue that land and rule over it yourselves, for that land, as scripture says, ...

The first, the military role of the Welsh in the Holy Land, has been overlooked by many historians, but it continued throughout the Middle Ages, and the military skills of the Welsh were well known.

The history of Western involvement in the Middle East began with the Crusades some 900 years ago. NPR's Mike Shuster begins a special six-part series on the troubled history.

In this gripping new three-part series for BBC Two, Dr Thomas Asbridge presents his revelatory account of the Crusades, the 200-year war between Christians and Muslims for control of the Holy Land.

Jean Jacques Grandville, Croisade contre la Liberté, La caricature (Crusade against freedom, a cartoon) , from 1834. From the end of the 18th century, “crusade” was widely employed to ...