As a student of history, Ridley Scott knows as well as anyone that the Crusades have been given the gauzy, soft-focus treatment by Hollywood.

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Moreover, the Turks were expanding in Asia Minor at the cost of the Byzantine Empire that acted as the bulwark of Christendom although Constantinople's (Eastern Orthodoxy) 'Great Schism' with Rome ...

The president said the graduating cadets would enter a service no longer subject to “absurd ideological experiments” or “nation-building crusades.” By Erica L. Green Erica L. Green covers ...