In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and call

At the dawn of the 15th century, Islam invaded Europe from the East and it seemed that Christendom itself was under threat. Eminent historian Welsh delves into

Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam. In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatc

In 1571, the Pope formed a Holy League to oppose the growing Turkish domination of the Eastern Mediterranean. A year later a vast fleet of Christian ships confr

In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes