History of the Crusades: All Facts You Need To Know

Join the Captivating History Book Club: Get a FREE mythology bundle ebook covering Greek, Norse, and Egyptian mythology here: You can get the audiobook version of The Crusades here: You can get the paperback version of The Crusades here: And the ebook version of The Crusades here: It could be said that European kings and nobles in the Middle Ages were Crusade mad. The enormous amount of fighting men who periodically sailed off to the Near East to do battle with Muslims are evidence of the widespread popularity of overseas adventurism at the time. The notion of a Crusade, in which large armies assembled from various regions of Europe for the purpose of doing battle with Turkish and Arab Muslims, became so fixed that it was expanded to include Crusades against heretical European Christian sects. See all captivating history books here: Follow us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: @CaptivHistory