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Crusade on the 11th century Mediterranean Sea

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Long before pope Urban II made his ímpassioned plea at Clerrnont, the Italian cities were fighting the Saracens on land and sea. 

Co-habitation of church and state in early 11th century France

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At the beginning of the eleventh century France was the only feudal state in Europe. (...) Actually France was not a single state but an all...

Journeys of Relics in Tenth to Twelfth Century Northern France and Flanders

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Medieval relic journeys were transformative events that reshaped sacred landscapes and social relationships. The physical act of moving holy...

Pre-crusade Muslim religious tolerance to pilgrims in the Holy Land

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" Christians in the Holy Land (under Muslim rule, TN) were permitted to practice their religion, and there was no barrier to pilgrims...

Depicting Saracens in the Middle Ages: sometimes more than monsters

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" Representations of Saracens as "the others" abound in (...) the earliest manuscripts of the 13 th century to the copies of ...

Medieval Treasure discovered at Cluny Abbey

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In a Medievalists.net paper of November 17, 2017 the unearthing of a large treasure at the Abbey of Cluny, France was reported. The precen...

The early years of the Order of the Temple - a timeline

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The first history of the Templar brotherhood is known as the time that occurs between the Synod of Nablus (1120) until the Council of Troyes...

Diversity and multiculturalism in the medieval world - theory and practise

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" The concepts of diversity and multiculturalism seem, in many respects, to be associated with modernity. However, linguistic and relig...

Racial changes in depicting Saracens in the Middle Ages

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" How were Saracens depicted from 1200-1420, and what can this tell modern scholars about the way that western artists and audiences vi...