have rounded on Sir Ridley and his film for distorting the reality of complex Christian and Muslim relations in the years preceding the 12th-century Third Crusade. Among the more temperate ...

(Evie Bishop / Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ... s landmark 1983 book, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, which led him to the writings by 11th- and 12th-century Muslim historians and geographers ...

Shepherds listen to an angel announce Jesus’ birth in a 12th-century ... the Children's Crusade. Engraving from 13th-century Chronicle of Matthew Paris. FINE ART/ALBUM Philip II did not lend ...

Crusades. In this episode, viewers see the history-as-news treatment of the 12th century Crusades. Many feel the Crusades set the pattern of historic distrust between Moslem nations and the West.

Violence towards the inhabitants was allowed if the city’s population continued to resist, explained Brosset, who specialised in Crusades and Levantine castles. “During the 12th century, it took a ...