LOUDONVILLE − The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum continues its Speaker Series with a look at the Crusades that defined the Middle Ages, and its modern legacies. The program is slated for 7 p.m. Monday, March ...

Two near-fatal attacks on Saladin by the Nizari Ismailis reveal a Middle Eastern landscape far more complex than the usual ...

(RNS) — An 800-year-old puzzle about a set of 13th-century floor tiles has added to historians’ thinking about the relationship of Europeans and Arabs at the time of the Crusades. Amanda Luyster, ...

“The World of the Crusades: An Illustrated History” by Christopher Tyerman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 525 pages, $35 (hardcover). General works about the crusades abound, yet “The World ...

Is there a historical episode less understood by the general public and more urgently in need of clarification than the Crusades? To some on the right, the Crusades prefigured the modern wars that ...

In January this year, at a courthouse in Wichita, Kansas, three members of a right-wing militia group were sentenced to a combined total of 81 years in jail for plotting the mass murder of Muslims on ...

A study on the vessels titled "Composition of trace residues from the contents of 11th-12th century sphero-conical vessels from Jerusalem" has published in the journal PLoS One. The ancient ceramic ...

The rhetoric of Osama bin Laden and other Islamic radicals, the current strife in the Middle East and a recent big-budget movie (Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven) have all helped bring about a renewed ...

Aleks Pluskowski has received funding from the European Research Council. Alex Brown and Rowena Banerjea do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...

Historians weigh in on whether the president's comparison is a fair one. — -- After President Obama’s remarks comparing ISIS militants to medieval Christian crusaders ignited a firestorm of ...