May 26

1096(1st of
Sivan): The Crusaders massacred the Jews of Neuss, Germany

1135:  Alfonso VII of León and Castile was crowned
in the Cathedral of Leon as Imperator
totius Hispaniae, “Emperor of all of Spain”. At the start of his
reign, he cur…

Book Reviews / Pneuma 35 (2013) 87-156 145 Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture. Amos Yong and Estrelda Alexander, ed….

May 24

1218:  The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
The driving forces behind the crusade were two Popes who broke new ground in
the mistreatment of the Jews – Innocent III and his successor, Honorius
III.   One of their mo…

May 21

383:
As the emperor struggles to make Christianity the state religion of the Roman
Empire he promulgates a law that denies anybody who converts from Christianity
to another religion the right to make a will. 
This law may have had some imp…

 May 19

363:
For a second day in a row, a series of earthquakes that took place along a
fault-line stretching from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba shook the region
around the Galilee. According to some, this seismic event was part of the
reason…