A new film about the Crusades distorts history and risks fuelling Islamic fundamentalism, say some British academics. “Kingdom of Heaven,” by Oscar-nominated director Ridley Scott, stars Orlando Bloom ...

Though their order was dissolved more than 700 years ago, the Knights Templar have continued to cast a spell over the world. Terrorists and drug cartels evoke them. Dan Brown’s mega-bestseller The Da ...

University of London historian and History Channel contributor Phillips (The Second Crusade) superbly condenses the four centuries of the Crusades into a single, easily accessible volume. Islamic as ...

Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj Novelist Svoboda follows up Dog on Fire with a ruminative, wide-ranging biography of her ...

MEDIEVAL HISTORY shows up on the page in two ways. One is obvious: it is written in pen and ink on vellum and parchment. This sort of history tends to be about battles and bloodshed, conquerors and ...