. The long series of military campaigns that aimed to expand the borders of Latin Christendom against international Islam and to defend Europe against residual paganism and resurgent heresy on the local scene. Drawing inspiration from earlier western...

The Roman Empire fell in A.D. 476. For almost six hundred years thereafter, Rome and Constantinople —the seats of the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, respectively—vied with each other for dominance. Each wanted to become the...

The Crusades were a series of eight military campaigns between the years 1096 and 1270 in which Europeans attempted to wrest control of the Holy Land from the Muslims who ruled the Middle East. The Crusades failed to achieve their objective and cost...

MARK J. CZERWINSKI, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-01-2006 ON A CRUSADE -- Vier leads young BC by DePaul By MARK J. CZERWINSKI, STAFF WRITER Date: 03-01-2006, Wednesday Section: SPORTS Edtion: All Editions ORADELL — On the surface, there...

NO ONE questions the urgent need to transform the U.S. military so that it will make full use of 21st century technologies and prepare itself for the very different kinds of conflicts it will have to fight in the future -- and has already...

Marvin Zindler, the flamboyant television consumer reporter whose crusade against a rural brothel inspired the play and movie "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," died Sunday. He was 85.Zindler died of complications from pancreatic cancer, said officials at KTRK-TV, the station he worked for."For nearly...

Audio/Visual: The voice-acting on the game, along with the music is a bit cheesy. Most of the characters, except for maybe the villains, sound like some jocks off the local high school football team and the music is some corny heavy metal that sounds...

In the following essay, Throop examines the songs and poetry written and performed in opposition to the Crusades and papal policy.

In the following essay, Erdmann analyzes the various elements—including religious and literary developments—that enabled the “general idea of crusade and war upon the heathen” to take the specific form of the Crusade to the Holy Land.

In the following essay, Hussey offers a brief history of the Crusades from the point of view of the Eastern Christian Byzantine empire, discussing the conflicts that arose between the Eastern Christian rulers and the Western European Christian Crusaders.

Discusses the subject of crusades, and the effects on the growth of European culture and the fall of the Ottoman empire.

Explores the history of the Crusades of the Middle Ages. Examines the fights between the Muslims and Christians. Describes influential people in the Crusades. Provides modern comparisons.

An informative essay discussing the Crusades.