On 27 November 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to ...

When Pope Urban III heard the news, he is said to have died of grief. His successor promptly called for another Crusade to recover Jerusalem. An illustrated miniature from a Gothic manuscript ...

But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the result was unlike anything ever seen before. #EpicHistoryTV #Crusades California wildfires rage for second day, destroying homes ...

Launched by Pope Urban II in 1095, the Crusades comprised a series of eight or nine major expeditions from western Europe to the Holy Land, continuing into the 15th century. In 1147, the Second ...

The first major – and pretty violent – encounters between the English and Poles took place during the Northern Crusades in Prussia and Lithuania. Pope Urban II preaching at the Council of Clermont, as ...

A 19th century engraving of a scene in Claremont, France shows Pope Urban II standing behind the priest Peter the Hermit who is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period ...

In the end, almost no one gained anything of worth from the Crusades. They diminished not only the Pope's credibility as a spiritual leader but also Europeans' hopes of expansion along with their ...