Medieval News

The Middle Ages are in the news again, so here is a roundup of recent news articles. We start with three good reads from historians talking ...

Today marks the 700th anniversary of the execution of Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar. For many historians this day ...

Here are some news stories from the medievalverse, and a few from beyond it... Crusader Feces An article in the International Journal o...

The conflict in Syria is the product of very modern forces — a legacy of dictatorship and regional geo-politicking — but it’s taking place o...

Historians of the Fourth Crusade (1202-04) have been seeking explanations why the crusaders decided to sail to the Byzantine capital of Cons...

“Deus vult!” — God wills it! — was the battle cry of the First Crusade, in which armies of Europe, at the very end of the 11th century, ma...

The epic song cycles of the First Crusade, like Led Zeppelin’s debut album, plucked the same brash chord that was heard in Crusades Two, Thr...

When he began looking at the First Crusade (1095-1099 ), Jay Rubenstein was expecting to write an academic paper or two demonstrating that t...

The nearly 500-page volume, Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier , comprises materials from a conference held at ...

An Arabic inscription that bears the name of the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II, and the date “1229 of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus t...

What was Wales’s involvement in the Crusades and what role did Welsh soldiers play in the campaign to halt Islamic expansion into Jerusalem?...

Archaeologists have long known that Yavneh-Yam, an archaeological site between the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Ashdod on the Mediterranea...

For a thousand years the idea of the crusade has defined nations and empires, justified wars and acts of terrorism and inspired everyone fro...

BBC History Magazine , a leading monthly periodical on all things history, features an article about the Crusades and Christian-Muslim medie...

Archaeologists prepare to uncover entire compound built in medieval times and hidden for centuries under the rubble in northern Israel. Of...

In 1280, victorious Teutonic Crusaders began building the world’s largest castle on a hill overlooking the River Nogat in what is now northe...

Cecilia Gaposchkin, assistant professor of history and assistant dean of faculty for pre-major advising, has accepted a fellowship at Prince...

Archaeologists and historians working in northern Israel have discovered the remains of a Templar and Crusader army who were slaughtered by ...

If you were worried there wouldn't be a 2012 candidate touting the pro-Crusades platform, then today is your lucky day! "The idea...

One of the popular images of the Crusades is the story of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine taking 300 of her ladies-in-waiting with her on the Sec...