The Crusades are one of the most misunderstood events in Western and Church history. The very word “crusades” conjures negative images in our modern world of bloodthirsty and greedy European nobles ...

What truly drove thousands of Europeans to take up the cross and march toward the Holy Land? In this episode, we examine the complex motivations behind the Crusades, from spiritual devotion and papal ...

A clear KS3 introduction to the Crusades, defining Holy Land, Jerusalem and Crusade, with reasons for going and structured literacy tasks. Students learn what the Crusades were, why they happened, and ...

The video argues that the Crusades were brutal, religious, political, and expensive but not as simple as modern slogans make ...

For starters, the Crusades to the East were in every way defensive wars. They were a direct response to Muslim aggression-an attempt to turn back or defend against Muslim conquests of Christian lands.

"Kingdom of Heaven," the current movie about the medieval Crusades, concludes with the Muslim commander Saladin nobly promising Christian defenders safe passage home to Europe in 1187 when they agreed ...

Why were the Crusades or why did the Crusades happen? But we can start by saying what they were. They were expeditions to the Holy Land, beginning with the Council of Clermont in 1095, ending with the ...