Many transformative events characterized the 12th century: the Crusades, the early Renaissance, the emergence of ...

The Carmelite Order, formally known as the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, has its roots in the Crusader States of the 12th century. A group of hermit monks ...

cut from a cliff it shares with the remains of a 12th-century crusader castle overlooking Petra. Shaher had invited me to stay for a meal at his dwelling that evening. "I'll prepare shrak bread ...