Through crusades and expulsions, Muslim communities survived for over 500 years, thriving in medieval Europe. This comprehensive new study explores how the presence of Islamic minorities transformed ...

rich history focus on Latin and Muslim perspectives challenge and expand conventional understanding of the Crusades By concentrating on the military particulars, Asbridge wove a vivid analysis of the ...

In a clear and accessible form, this book explores everyday relations and interactions between Christians and Muslims in the Levant during the Crusades, demonstrating that it was usually practicality ...

Hugh of Lucca served with the Italian army on a Crusade. He discovered that wine worked well as an antiseptic for cleaning wounds. Exchange of ideas There were times when Crusaders and Muslims ...

For Jewish people, Christians and Muslims, Jerusalem was and still is ... priest Peter the Hermit who is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period, peasants had to give 10 per ...

Crusade and Mission: European Approaches Toward the Muslims Benjamin Z. Kedar This wide-ranging study of medieval Europe's response to the challenge of Islam examines the relationship between ideas of ...

He has also published articles on the First Crusade, examining how interactions between Normans and Muslims in Southern Italy and Sicily informed southern Italian behavior during the Crusades and how ...

I met with a government official preparing to resign and told him I was writing a book about the rise of authoritarian ...

Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.