The Crusades - an armed movement of the peoples of the Christian West in the Muslim East, expressed in a number of campaigns in the course of two centuries (from the end of XI until the end of XIII) with the purpose of the conquest of Palestine and the liberation of the Holy Sepulcher from the hands of the infidels. It is a powerful reaction of Christianity against the power of Islam and ambitious attempt to take over not only the Christian areas, but generally enhance the rule of the cross, the symbol of the Christian idea. Participants in Continue reading...