(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 sisters of Saint-Louis Hospital, near the Old City of Jerusalem, recently uncovered lost 19th-century wall paintings of Crusader history that once decorated the entire facility, according to ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For the modern western reader, the term “crusades” evokes pious Christian monarchs riding and sailing to the Middle ...