LOUDONVILLE − The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum continues its Speaker Series with a look at the Crusades that defined the Middle Ages, and its modern legacies. The program is slated for 7 p.m. Monday, March ...

(RNS) — An 800-year-old puzzle about a set of 13th-century floor tiles has added to historians’ thinking about the relationship of Europeans and Arabs at the time of the Crusades. Amanda Luyster, ...

A lot of people claim the Crusades were “just about greed,” but that’s a modern shortcut that doesn’t match the medieval ...

The knights of the Crusades were not a single group but rather a variety of orders with distinct purposes and codes. While many are now extinct, here are several of the crusade knight orders that ...

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 ...

Aleks Pluskowski has received funding from the European Research Council. Alex Brown and Rowena Banerjea do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...

The rhetoric of Osama bin Laden and other Islamic radicals, the current strife in the Middle East and a recent big-budget movie (Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven) have all helped bring about a renewed ...