King Philip II
The Siege of Acre: a monstrous blot on the Third Crusade
Lionheart! Saladin! Massacre! There is no shortage of larger-than-life characters and drama in the epic, two-year siege of Acre, the…
The king who blamed everything that went wrong on God
Geoffrey Parker is a product of Nottingham and Christ’s College Cambridge, and I think was once a pupil of the…