But the Holy Cross Crusader is unambiguously an armored, sword-wielding, cross-bearing icon of the Christian knights of the Crusades, so I’ll address the controversy on those terms. My argument ...

It was later determined by Nir Distelfeld, the inspector, that the sword was a piece of Crusader knight history ... of Jerusalem and other parts of the Holy Land from the Muslims.

The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him ... Destiny comes seeking Balian in the form of a great knight, Godfrey of Ibelin, a Crusader briefly home to France from ...

The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him ... Destiny comes seeking Balian in the form of a great knight, Godfrey of Ibelin, a Crusader briefly home to France from ...