Daily Medieval

So King of Jerusalem Guy of Lusignan was camped at Acre, ready to besiege the city and take control of it as a base for future conflict aga...

A couple weeks ago I mentioned the events that led to Saladin coming to power in Egypt. From there he had two choices: stay in Egypt and tr...

The Siege of Acre was two years long and a major event in the history of the Crusades. Although started independently by Guy of Lusignan in...

You are Frederick I, offspring of two of Germany's most powerful families. As a young man, you went on Crusade and distinguished yoursel...

I have written about Muslim-Christian relations before ( here and here ). Conflict between the forces of Western European culture and the A...

The Second Crusade (1145-49) had put a great deal of the Holy Land under European rule, but Saladin (Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, 1138-1193...