In August 1191, following the capture of Acre, Richard the Lionheart led his crusader army down the coast of Palestine, facing off against Saladin in one of the most pivotal battles of the Third ...

The prolonged siege of Acre must come off to the modern reader as an excessively long, drawn out affair. Only military incompetence and excessive caution on both sides could have allowed it to last ...

An extra KS3 comparison lesson analysing Richard I and Saladin, their leadership qualities, motivations, strengths and challenges. This extension lesson deepens understanding of Crusader leadership.

(RNS) — An 800-year-old puzzle about a set of 13th-century floor tiles has added to historians’ thinking about the relationship of Europeans and Arabs at the time of the Crusades. Amanda Luyster, ...

The Syrian Sultan Saladin captured Jerusalem. This ended 88 years of rule by the Crusaders. Yusuf Salah ad-Din ibn Ayyub (or Saladin) (from Arabic: Saladin – strength of faith) was the sultan of the ...