The First Crusade: A New History (London: Free Press ... highlighting the poverty and near-destitution many of the key players endured. The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the ...

The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the ...

A 19th century engraving of a scene in Claremont, France shows Pope Urban II standing behind the priest Peter the Hermit who is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period ...