Sentence examples for crusade between from inspiring English sources

For all the blood-soaked history of religion, it is not without episodes of reconciliation: in "The Saint and the Sultan," the journalist Paul Moses pieces together a vivid, remarkable encounter during the Fifth Crusade between Francis of Assisi, the Italian Christian friar, and Sultan al-Kamil, a Sunni leader in Egypt.

While English participation in the First Crusade between 1095 and 1099 was limited, England played a prominent part in the Second, Third and Fifth Crusades over the next two centuries, with many crusaders leaving for the Levant during the intervening years.

Apart from Frederick's promise to renew the Crusades, relations between Emperor and Pope were strained.

Efforts by the Emperor David to recruit European powers for an anti-Ottoman crusade provoked war between the Ottomans and Trebizond in the summer of 1461.

A crusade means a battle between Islam and Christianity.

It is said that soldiers asked Arnald-Amaury, the head of the Cistercians and the leader of the Crusade, how to distinguish between Cathars and Catholics in meting out punishment — to which he replied, "Kill them all.

Over the years, he has unearthed from piles of unwanted books a signed, first-edition copy of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" (worth two thousand dollars) and two signed, limited-edition, slip-cased copies of Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe" (worth between three and five thousand dollars each).

The outcome of The Fourth Crusade deepened the animosity between the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church.

But Keller, who died in 1968, never saw a contradiction between her crusade to address the causes of blindness and her efforts to promote economic and social justice.

Keller, who died in 1968, never saw a contradiction between her crusade to address the causes of blindness and her efforts to promote economic and social justice.

But "The Paw Project" is robustly persuasive, with Conrad compellingly framing her crusade as a battle between a right-thinking vet and a deep-pocketed industry group that purportedly represents her.