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The Crusade of Saint Francis

September 26, 2019 Father Seán Connolly 5

Critics frame the Crusades as an act of aggression from an expansionist Christendom upon an unsuspecting and peaceful Muslim world. This view totally ignores the fact, however, that the these religious wars of the medieval […]

Books

Crusading 101

March 3, 2018 Timothy D. Lusch 12

How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages, by Oxford professor Christopher Tyerman, demolishes the legend that Western crusaders were mere irrational […]