Intellectual life in the modern West traces its origins to the ancient Greeks and Romans. However, by the launch of the First ...

Christian pilgrims close pilgrimA person taking ... behind the priest Peter the Hermit who is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period, peasants had to give 10 per cent of what ...

I know I should be jaded by now by the persistence of Linda Greenhouse in seeking to stigmatize defense of religious liberty as a religious crusade. But I was still startled today to see her do it ...

And Philip of Mahdia, a Muslim eunuch, rose to admiral in the service of Roger II, the Christian “King of Africa.” What their lives reveal is that, then as now, politics were driven by a mix of ...

A concerted religious crusade was under way. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish forces last week had a common aim: to get at least one foot inside the forthcoming United Nations Conference in San ...

For others the Revolution became something of a religious crusade. Jonathan Mayhew, the pastor of the West Church in Boston, gave moral sanction to the war by preaching that opposition to a tyrant ...