The conquest story in Joshua belongs to a unique, time-bound moment of redemptive history. Yet Puritan pulpits universalized it, equating their ships with Israel’s Jordan crossing. Three interpretive ...

“These heretics are worse than the Saracens!” exclaimed Pope Innocent III, and on March 10, 1208, he proclaimed a crusade against a sect in southern France that became one of the bloodiest ...

Half Sword is to medieval games what Hell Let Loose is to the WW2 FPS - while Chivalry, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, and Mount and Blade have excellent, larger-scale combat, in Half Sword ...

Members of a Cheyenne medieval weapons club aren’t just hobbyists, they seriously train with period-appropriate swords. “It’s about more than just sword fighting and being a nerd,” claims one member.

What immediately points to what King Arthur: Legend of the Sword getting it right about Medieval times is the landscape it was ... The historical drama was set after the Second Crusade. Scott ...

This time around, they found something more mighty: a big honking sword from the Middle Ages ... All that’s known is that they are Medieval in origin, though that’s vague, as the Middle ...

Clad in armor while astride fierce destrier warhorses, knights once roamed medieval Europe in the service of their ... After European Christian armies captured Jerusalem in the First Crusade, more and ...

But, as Nora Berend shows in her enthralling study, “El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary ... In reality, his was a sword for hire. A shrewd strategist, he studied the ...

It’s the kind of place where you can easily imagine kings holding court or knights planning their next crusade. In reality ... and more rocks than you can shake a sword at, he created a miniature ...

It’s like playing Dungeons & Dragons, but without the risk of rolling a critical fail and accidentally impaling yourself on your own sword ... next crusade (or just enjoying a good book). Havencrest ...

Skibicki/ Szczepan Skibicki of the Military Museum of Białystok in Poland found a sword during a swim in the Supraśl river in 2022 An official said the object, which dates back to the 9th ...

A country riven by fire, sword, and destruction. Violence fanned by religious bigotry. Mass protests and innovative social experiments. All of this occurred in late medieval Bohemia ... A formal ...