The Crusades (1096–1291) were religious wars initiated by the Catholic Church to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control. However, Crusaders also turned their violence toward European ...

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The Crusades: The War for the Holy Lands (London: Simon & Schuster, 2010), a 784-page single-volume history published in 2010, sought to: present a new, rich history focus on Latin and Muslim ...

Although far less cinematically prolific than other historical wars, the Crusades have still produced many great movies, from El Cid to Robin Hood.

Still, the war on Muslims between the ... It was during the First Crusade that the fanatical Latin Christians first named Palestine the "Holy Land", replacing its biblical Old Testament nickname ...