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

12 May 2018 9:00 am

Lionheart! Saladin! Massacre! There is no shortage of larger-than-life characters and drama in the epic, two-year siege of Acre, the…

The empire on which the sun never set

15 November 2014 9:00 am

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