Last week President Obama spoke about faith, doubt, violence, and extremism, and was roundly criticized by many conservatives for what they saw as the "anti-Christian" tone of his remarks. In an ...
The Crusades have inspired a vast amount of writing since the very beginning. Most scholars date their beginnings to November 1095 CE, when Pope Urban II stepped onto a rostrum outside the town of ...
When President Bush first declared the war on terrorism soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, he made the mistake of using the word "crusade" to describe it. That was much condemned in the Arab world, ...
It is always debatable whether the Crusades remain relevant in Arab political rhetoric. Islamists in general believe that the Crusades are relevant because they resemble – in their minds – current ...
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How the crusades began and how they went wrong
In 1095, Pope Urban II called on Western knights to aid the Byzantine Empire against Turkish expansion. Thousands answered, forming the First Crusade. Against expectations, they captured Jerusalem in ...
The Crusades began with a stunning breakthrough, but the effort to hold the Holy Land collapsed under weak settlement, chronic manpower shortages, internal rivalry, and the shattering divide between ...
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Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...
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