WARRIORS OF GOD: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade. By James Reston Jr. Doubleday, $27.50. CONSIDERING its origin, perhaps the word "crusade" should be pejorative. Honor and ...

Richard I’s exploits in the Third Crusade have left him one of England’s most famous kings. The crusades began in 1095 when the Pope called on the Christian nobles of western Europe to rescue the holy ...

With 'Kingdom of Heaven' about to open, we offer a crash course on an extraordinary chapter of medieval history , The Crusades are the stuff of fairy tales. For God and king, armored knights wearing ...

We will follow the two great waves of crusader armies - that of the nobility led by Count Raymond IV of Toulouse, and that of the commoners exhorted into mobilisation by Peter the Hermit and Walter ...