Describes daily life in the Christian West and Muslim East during the three centuries of holy war, analyzing why the armies of Christendom engaged in the Crusades and what they hoped to accomplish.
In 1096, Anna, a German Catholic girl, and Leah, a German Jewish girl, strike up a remarkable friendship and make surprising discoveries about each other.
In 1191, fifteen-year-old Tristan, a youth of unknown origin raised in an English abbey, becomes a Templar Knight's squire during the Third Crusade and soon finds himself on a mission to bring the Holy Grail to safety.
Examines the life of the very powerful and influential Muslim sultan, Saladin, who led his people in an attempt to regain holy lands in and around Jerusalem that had been lost during earlier Crusades.
Describes what it was like to live in Medieval Europe, discussing religion, government, food, castles, crusades, health and medicine, sports, travel, and more.
Contains thirty-seven groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to the Crusades, from 1095 to 1291, followed by two opposing opinions.
In the winter of 1208 while the dispute between the Pope and the Cathars intensifies, thirteen-year-old Lady Elinor, secretely in love with the troubadour Bertran de Miramont and determined to avoid her imminent marriage to an older man, runs away from her family's castle disguised as an apprentice troubadour, unaware of the dangers ahead as the Albigensian Crusade begins its onslaught on her native Languedoc.
Describes King Richard I's active involvement in the Crusades as a warrior and a military leader, also providing background information on Richard's life and the Christian quest for the Holy Land.
In twelth-century Jerusalem, orphaned sixteen-year-old Pagan is assigned to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight, as Saladin's armies close in on the Holy City.
