Mass military expeditions and wars initiated by the Catholic Church in the High Middle Ages

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Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.

Mediaeval crusaders holding up the battle-standard of a crusade against cancer. Colour lithograph by Aqullò, 1965.

Coat of arms of the crusader Melchior Asinari. Engraving.

Death is challenged by a crusader representing the Red Cross; advertising the Third Red Cross Roll Call for the improvement of public health. Colour lithograph, 1919.

A Saracen physician taking the pulse of a Christian patient who is surrounded by fellow crusaders. Aquatint by S. Marceau, 1826.

Memoirs of John lord de Joinville, grand seneschal of Champagne / written by himself; containing a history of part of the life of Louis IX., king of France, surnamed Saint Louis, including an account of that king's expedition to Egypt in the year MCCXLVIII. To which are added, the notes anddissertations of M. Du Cange on the above ... together with the dissertations of M. le Baron de la Bastie on the life of St. Louis, M. L'Évesque de la Ravaliere and M. Falconet on the Assassins of Syria; from the 'Memoires de l'Académie de belles lettres et inscriptions de France. The whole translated by Thomas Johnes, esq.

The preaching of the crusades to the Holy Land, 1095-1270 / Penny J. Cole.

The Knights hospitallers in the Holy Land / by Colonel E.J. King.

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Crusades

Images from the collections

Images referencing Crusades

Works from the collections

Coat of arms of the crusader Melchior Asinari. Engraving.

The preaching of the crusades to the Holy Land, 1095-1270 / Penny J. Cole.

The Knights hospitallers in the Holy Land / by Colonel E.J. King.

Death is challenged by a crusader representing the Red Cross; advertising the Third Red Cross Roll Call for the improvement of public health. Colour lithograph, 1919.

Crusades

Images from the collections

Images referencing Crusades

Works from the collections

Coat of arms of the crusader Melchior Asinari. Engraving.

The preaching of the crusades to the Holy Land, 1095-1270 / Penny J. Cole.

The Knights hospitallers in the Holy Land / by Colonel E.J. King.

Death is challenged by a crusader representing the Red Cross; advertising the Third Red Cross Roll Call for the improvement of public health. Colour lithograph, 1919.

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