King Philip II

The Siege of Acre, depicted in Chroniques de France ou de Saint Denis (1487)

The Siege of Acre: a monstrous blot on the Third Crusade

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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

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Geoffrey Parker is a product of Nottingham and Christ’s College Cambridge, and I think was once a pupil of the…

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