(What made Oxford's medieval students so murderous?) By exploiting the castle’s potential as a ... Crusaders on their way to the Second Crusade arrived at the gates of Lisbon, a city then ...

specifying that when a fortress was stormed, some tacit norms of war conduct existed. Violence towards the inhabitants was allowed if the city’s population continued to resist, explained Brosset, who ...

There still seems to be plenty worth pulling from the era, though, if the launch of new Age of Empires and Total War Medieval 2-style RTS Knights of the Crusades is anything to go by. Launched on ...

Luyster’s research findings underpin the exhibition “Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece,” which runs Jan. 26 to April ...