The chilling reverberations of the brutal First Crusade still echo in the world today, as revealed in this gripping account of the titanic, three-year adventure. Maps.

Nine hundred years ago Pope Urban II initiated one of the most controversial episodes in Christian history by stating that, in spite of the apparently pacifist message of the ...

On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. Now, in The First Crusade, Thomas Asbridge offers a ...