Were the Crusades based on Fake News?
Medieval fake news may have started two hundred years of Crusades with a forged letter from the Byzantine emperor to the Christian west begging for help
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Egypt as a theatre of war during the Crusades
Egypt was as much a target for Crusader and Knight Templar activity as other parts of the Middle East as Tony McMahon discovers
Massacre of Christians in Jerusalem
In 1244, the holy city of Jerusalem fell to an alliance of Muslim forces led by a Khwarazmian army. The Christian and Jewish populations of the city were slaughtered and the bodies of the past crusader Kings of Jerusalem were dragged out of their tombs and thrown into the street.
Who was the REAL Saladin?
Saladin was a formidable Saracen leader but his image has gone through many changes down the centuries from villain to hero, Christian convert to Arab nationalist, as Tony McMahon discovers.
Fatimid Empire versus Knights Templar
The Fatimid Empire presented a formidable foe to the Knights Templar but in the 1160s it collapsed – Tony McMahon investigates.
How the Popes supported the Knights Templar
How the papacy gave the Knights Templar official recognition making the knights answerable only to Rome – Tony McMahon explains all.
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