University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 208 p. An Introduction to the Crusades , part of the Companions to Medieval Studies series, is an accessible guide to studying the complex history of the Crusades. The book begins by defining the Crusades, giving the political and social context of Byzantium, Western Europe, the Islamic States, and Jewish communities to set the scene for...
Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2015. — 201 p. "Seven Myths of the Crusades' rebuttal of the persistent and multifarious misconceptions associated with topics including the First Crusade, anti-Judaism and the Crusades, the crusader states, the Children's Crusade, the Templars and past and present Islamic-Christian relations proves, once and for all, that real history is far...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008 — 361 p. Introduction to the 2008 Reprint Edition. In the Heat of Events: Sources Immediate to the Fourth Crusade . The Registers of Innocent III. Count Hugh of Saint Pol’s Report to the West. In Reflection: Eyewitness Accounts after the Fact . The Devastatio Constantinopolitana. The Anonymous of Soissons. The Deeds of the Bishops of Halberstadt. The...
HarperCollins, 2011. — 784 p. "The Crusades" is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge -a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, "The New Yorker") - covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods...
Ecco, 2010. — 784 p. — ISBN13: 0060787287, ISBN13: 9780060787288. From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land. Nine hundred years ago, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern...
Simon & Schuster, 2005. — 448 p. On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afire. Some 100,000 men, from knights to paupers, took up the call - the largest mobilization of manpower since the fall of the Roman Empire. Now, in The First Crusade , Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping...
Indiana University Press, 1962. — 294 p. The Eastern Question: Earlier Solutions wo Crusade: The Frankish Solution of the Eastern Question The Crusade in the Later Middle Ages Aftermath: The Counter-Crusade The Romance of Medieval Commerce in the Levant Arab Culture and the West in the Middle Ages Epilogue Appendix: Dante's Sources and Muslim Legend
Methuen, 1938 - 604 p. The Crusades are commonly thought to have ended with St. Louis in Tunis in 1270, or with the fall of Acre in 1291. But Dr. Atiya in his valuable new book (Methuen; 3os.) shows that the idea of recovering the Holy- Land from the Moslems was popular in Europe till the fifteenth century, and that the Papacy gave steady support both to the propaganda and to...
London: Methuen & Co., 1934. — 257 p. The present study is the final chapter of a projected history of the crusade in the later Middle Ages. It is hoped that its publication may serve to strengthen the conception, now increasingly held among scholars, that the medieval crusade survived St. Louis' death outside the walls of Tunis in I270, and that attempts to save the Holy Land...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 503 p. When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's plan: to reestablish Christian control of Syria and Palestine. This book is devoted to the...
Routledge, 2016. — 216 p. No written source is entirely without literary artifice, but the letters sent from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine in the high middle ages come closest to recording the real feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader states. They are not, of course, reflective pieces, but they do convey the immediacy of circumstances which were frequently...
Flammarion, 2010. — 98 p. "C'est donc ainsi que commencent les croisades, c'est-à-dire l'aventure de ces chrétiens qui ont entendu l'appel du pape, en sont restés fascinés et se sont engagés dans une entreprise qu'avec nos valeurs d'aujourd'hui nous jugeons assez discutable, mais qui pour eux était sacro-sainte : ils partent pour Jérusalem, à pied, en se taillant un chemin par...
Flammarion, 2010. — 98 p. "C'est donc ainsi que commencent les croisades, c'est-à-dire l'aventure de ces chrétiens qui ont entendu l'appel du pape, en sont restés fascinés et se sont engagés dans une entreprise qu'avec nos valeurs d'aujourd'hui nous jugeons assez discutable, mais qui pour eux était sacro-sainte : ils partent pour Jérusalem, à pied, en se taillant un chemin par...
Bellona, 2004. — 161 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Hattin took place on 4 July 1187, between the Crusader states of the Levant and the forces of the Ayyubid sultan Salah ad-Din, known in the West as Saladin. It is also known as the Battle of the Horns of Hattin, due to the shape of a nearby extinct volcano. The Muslim armies under Saladin captured or killed the vast...
Routledge, 2015. — 748 p. "The Crusader World" is a multidisciplinary survey of the current state of research in the field of crusader studies, an area of study which has become increasingly popular in recent years. In this volume Adrian Boas draws together an impressive range of academics, including work from renowned scholars as well as a number of though-provoking pieces...
Routledge, 2001. — 288 p. Adrian Boas's combined use of historical and archaeological evidence together with first-hand accounts written by visiting pilgrims results in a multi-faceted perspective on Crusader Jerusalem. Generously illustrated, this book will serve both as a scholarly account of this city's archaeology and history, and a useful guide for the interested reader to...
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. — 242 p. This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing questions of gender into the history of the military orders. Female...
London: Routledge, 2019. — 278 p. — (Crusade Texts in Translation). The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (or Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn) is the most substantial contemporary Latin account of the conquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187. Seemingly written by a churchman who was in Jerusalem itself when the city was...
Crux Publishing Ltd, 2017. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-1-909979-50-3. In the late fall of 1095 Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France and set all of Europe into motion. As many as a hundred and fifty thousand people eventually responded to the call, leaving everything they knew behind to undertake what appeared to be a fool’s mission: marching several thousand miles into...
Boydell Press, 2017. — 296 p. Situated in northern Syria, on the eastern-most frontier of Latin Christendom, the principality of Antioch was a medieval polity bordered by a host of rival powers, including the Byzantine Empire, the Armenian Christians of Cilicia, the rulers of the neighbouring Islamic world and even the other crusader states, the kingdom of Jerusalem and the...
Brill Academic Pub, 2014 - 328 p. The preachers of the crusades often tried to persuade their audiences that in the business of the crusade there were immense spiritual wages to be gained for a short labour. Many times in the process of writing this study, which was originally defended for the degree of Ph.D. at the University of Southern Denmark in June 2004, I have feared...
The Boydell Press, 2015. — 198 p. — (Warfare in History). The period from the fall of Acre until the end of the Crusade of Smyrna signified a dramatic shift in crusade impetus, as expeditions to liberate the Holy Land were superseded by those aimed at reducing the maritime power of the Turks in the Aegean. With this shift in impetus came a change in participation, as the...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. — 416 p. An in-depth portrait of the Crusades-era Mediterranean world, and a new understanding of the forces that shaped it. In "Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors", the award-winning scholar Brian Catlos puts us on the ground in the Mediterranean world of 1050–1200. We experience the sights and sounds of the region just as enlightened Islamic...
University of California Press, 2000. — 272 p. Although closely focused on the remarkable Hebrew First-Crusade narratives, Robert Chazan's new interpretation of these texts is anything but narrow, as his title, God, Humanity, and History , strongly suggests. The three surviving Hebrew accounts of the crusaders' devastating assaults on Rhineland Jewish communities during the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1980. — 304 p. — (New Studies in Medieval History). North-East Europe on the Eve of the Crusades. The Wendish Crusade in Theory and Practice, 1147–85. The Armed Monks: Ideology and Efficiency. The Conquest of the East Baltic Lands, 1200–92. The Theocratic Experiment, 1200–73. The Interminable Crusade, 1283–1410. The Crusade against Novgorod, 1295–1378. The...
Oxford University Press, 2014 - 360 p. In 1099, when the first Frankish invaders arrived before the walls of Jerusalem, they had carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that endured for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusaders and pilgrims. The story of how this group of warriors, driven by faith, greed, and wanderlust, created new...
The Medieval Academy of America, 1991. — 296 p. This is a study of the sermons, the preachers, and the organization of the preaching of the crusades against Islam to recover the Holy Land for Christendom and maintain it under christian domination. It addresses the ideas of the crusade and the language in which they were couched. It traces the changes that occurrred in the...
Routledge, 2011. — 460 p. The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was the great lost realm of chivalry. Created by the leaders of the First Crusade at the start of the lih century, it was a feudal state comprised of Antioch, Edessa, Tripoli, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Ashqelon Krak, Montreal, Sidon and Galilee that lasted for two hundred years, surrounded by the Muslims of Palestine and Syria....
London: Committee of The Palestine Exploration Fund, 1897. — 443 p. The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was the great lost realm of chivalry. Created by the leaders of the First Crusade at the start of the lih century, it was a feudal state comprised of Antioch, Edessa, Tripoli, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Ashqelon Krak, Montreal, Sidon and Galilee that lasted for two hundred years,...
London: Routledge, 2008. — 371 p. Crusading in the twelfth century was less a series of discrete events than a manifestation of an endemic phenomenon that touched almost every aspect of life at that time. The defense of Christendom and the recovery of the Holy Land were widely-shared objectives. Thousands of men, and not a few women, participated in the crusades, including not...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 256 p. The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest...
New York, The Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, 2008. — 246 p. A sudden and inexplicable outpouring of crusading enthusiasm infl amed and unsettled troops of male and female youths, along with grownups, mothers with babes-in-arms, and the occasional family of peasants or townspeople, dislodging them from the towns and villages of early thirteenth-century France...
London ; New York : Routledge, 2016. — (Crusade Texts in Translation Series no. 1). — 208 p. : maps. This is a complete collection in modern English of the key texts describing Saladin’s conquest of Jerusalem in October 1187 and the Third Crusade, which was Christendom’s response to the catastrophe. The largest and most important text in the book is a translation of the fullest...
Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 187 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series). William, archbishop of Tyre from 1175 to c.1184, was a churchman, royal servant and scholar who lived in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Born in Jerusalem around 1130, he studied in western Europe for almost twenty years until 1165, when he returned to the East to begin...
Routledge, 2019. — 230 p. First published in 1999, this edition of Walter the Chancellor’s account of the wars of the Antiochenes against the Muslims in the early twelfth century is a vivid first-hand account of a dramatic yet less well-known period in the history of the northern Crusader states, and an important balance to the more usual focus on Jerusalem. As a highly-placed...
Routledge, 2016. — 206 p. Zengi gained his legacy as the precursor to Saladin. While Zengi captured Edessa, Saladin would capture Jerusalem, and both leaders fought to establish their own realms. However, Zengi cannot be fully understood without an examination of his other policies and warfare and an appreciation of his Turkmen background, all of which influenced his fight...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 288 p., The Knight, the Cross, and the Song offers a new perspective on the driving forces of crusading in the period 1100-1400. Although religious devotion has long been identified as the primary motivation of those who took the cross, Stefan Vander Elst argues that it was by no means the only focus of the texts written to convince the...
Librairie Académique Perrin, 2012. — 485 p. Pendant deux cents ans (fin XIe-fin XIIIe siècle), l'Occident chrétien a mobilisé une grande partie de ses forces armées d'abord pour libérer la Terre sainte, occupée par les musulmans depuis plus de quatre siècles, puis pour la défendre, en vain. Les sources qui font connaître " l'ère des croisades " sont nombreuses, diverses et...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. - 304 p. - (The Northern World 26). The Popes and the Baltic Crusades examines the formulation of papal policy on the crusades and missions in the Baltic region in the central Middle Ages and analyses why and how the crusade concept was extended from the Holy Land to the Baltic region.
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2011. — 240 p. In this work Michael Foss casts new light on the reality of and motives behind the Crusades in general, and in particular the First Crusade, which set the tone for all those that followed. As the eleventh century came to an end, the Christian lands of Western Europe were in trouble. Afflicted by repeated invasions from the north, by the...
London: UCL Press Limited, 1999. — 344 p. — ISBN: 9781857284676 This book examines the history of war in what are usually called the “High Middle Ages”. At the beginning of the second millennium, Europe was no longer threatened by external attack and it was clearly set on a course of remarkable economic, social and political development. In 1095 the First Crusade was launched,...
Brill, 2018. — 228 p. — (History of Warfare, 116). In the crusader period Acre was in many ways a remarkable place, but the most striking thing about its history is the number of times it fell to enemies. The present volume Acre and Its Falls is unusual in that it analyses a wide range of aspects of the history of Acre across the crusader period, combining political, military...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 240 p. On 4 July 1187 the legendary Muslim leader Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem with a terrible slaughter at the battle of Hattin - and went on to restore the Holy City of Jerusalem to Islamic rule. The carnage at Hattin was the culmination of almost a century of religious wars between Christian and Muslim...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 444 p. The success of the First Crusade, and its capture of Jerusalem in 1099, has been conventionally explained by its ideological and political motivation. This book looks at the First Crusade primarily as a military campaign and asks why it was so successful. Modern writing about the crusade has tended to emphasize the moral dimension and...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 444 p. The success of the First Crusade, and its capture of Jerusalem in 1099, has been conventionally explained by its ideological and political motivation. This book looks at the First Crusade primarily as a military campaign and asks why it was so successful. Modern writing about the crusade has tended to emphasize the moral dimension and...
Belknap Press, 2012. — 295 p. According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated in July 1099, when thousands of western European knights liberated Jerusalem from the rising menace of Islam. But what if the First Crusade’s real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? In this groundbreaking book, countering nearly a millennium of...
Cornell University Press, 2017. — 376 p. In 1098, three years into the First Crusade and after a brutal eight-month siege, the Franks captured the city of Antioch. Two days later, Muslim forces arrived with a relief army, and the victors became the besieged. Exhausted and ravaged by illness and hunger, the Franks were exhorted by their religious leaders to supplicate God, and...
Troyes: Typ. Bouquot, 1858. — 84 p. Dans la region orientale du departement de l Aube , sur le sommet d une montagne d ou l on domine une vaste plaine couverte aujourd hui de nombreux et riches villages, a dix lieues environ de la ville de Troyes, capitale de la Champagne s elevait, depuis un temps immemorial , un chateau - fort, avec accompagnement de donjons , tourelles,...
Routledge, 2018. — 294 p. Preaching was an integral part of the crusade movement. This book focuses on the efforts of the first four Avignon popes to organize crusade preaching campaigns to the Eastern Mediterranean and on the role of the secular and regular clergy in their implementation. Historians have treated the fall of Acre in 1291 as an arbitrary boundary in crusader...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. - 461 p. - (The Northern World 56). This book investigates into the Polish participation in the Crusades to the Holy Land, as well as the organisation of the campaign of preaching of the Cross and the collection of resources for the support of the Crusades by the Church. By broadening the scope of enquiry to consider the application of the motifs of...
Routledge, 2013. — 280 p. This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical perspective. Here is a very different voice, one with...
Digital Edition. — Bournemouth: Future PLC Richmond House, 2018. — 142 p. In the 11th century the Christian Byzantine Greeks of the Byzantine Empire were under pressure from the forces of the Seljuk Turks. Pope Urban II, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, called for a great expedition to help relieve that pressure and liberate the Holy Land from the Muslims. The subsequent...
The Boydell Press, 2007. — 284 p. Narratives of crusading have often been overlooked as a source for the history of women because of their focus on martial events, and perceptions about women inhibiting the recruitment and progress of crusading armies. Yet women consistently appeared in the histories of crusade and settlement, performing a variety of roles. While some were...
Routledge, 2016. — 112 p. The book will be welcome for tackling the Crusades from a fresh but important angle; the relations of the Crusader states with their neighbours, both Christian (the Byzantines) and, especially, Islamic — the rulers of Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad, Cairo etc. It contributes to the very fashionable approach of seeing the Crusades as a prime example of early...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 272 p. The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages. The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189–1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third Crusade, attracting armies from across Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Maghreb....
Yale University Press, 2008. — 392 p. In a series of massive military undertakings that stretched from 1095 to 1291, Christendom’s armies won, defended, and lost the sacred sites of the Holy Land. Many books have been written about the Crusades, but until now none has described in detail what is was like to take part in medieval Europe’s most ambitious wars. This vividly...
Routledge, 2016. — 238 p. Increasingly, historians acknowledge the significance of crusading activity in the fifteenth century, and they have started to explore the different ways in which it shaped contemporary European society. Just as important, however, was the range of interactions which took place between the three faith communities which were most affected by crusade,...
Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2006. — 226 p. — (Crusade Texts in Translation). The Crusade of Varna of 1443-45 was one of the decisive events of the late Middle Ages. Following the temporary Union of the Greek and Latin Churches in 1439, Pope Eugenius IV created an alliance which aimed to 'liberate' Byzantium and the Balkan Peninsula from the domination of the Ottoman Empire. The...
New York: Routledge, 2006. — 193 p. This German-to-English translation of a highly successful book is a clear, approachable, student-friendly introduction to the history of the Crusades. With a long chronological span, from the eleventh to the late fifteenth century, and with a wide geographical coverage of the whole of Europe and some of the Middle East, The Crusades is clear,...
Brill, 2007. - 444 p. - (The Northern World 30). This ground-breaking study of the role of crusading in late-medieval and early modern Denmark argues that crusading had a tremendous impact on political and religious life in Scandinavia all through the Middle Ages, which continued long after the Reformation ostensibly should have put an end to its viability within Protestant...
Routledge, 2017. — 300 p. This book offers a new appraisal of the ancestry and career of Godfrey of Bouillon (c.1060-1100), a leading participant in the First Crusade (1096-99), and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem (1099-1100), the polity established by the crusaders after they captured the Holy City. While previous studies of Godfrey’s life have tended to focus on his career...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014 - 270 p. This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris's landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a chronological exploration of Byzantium and the outlook of its rulers during the time of the Crusades. It argues that one of the main keys to Byzantine...
Head of Zeus, 2019. — 512 p. Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades – the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule, and which have left an enduring imprint on...
Thomson Gale, 2005. — 226 p. The Crusades covers everything from the First Crusade (1095-99) through the Ninth Crusade (1271-72). The Crusades: Biographies explores many key figures, such as Pope Urban II, Saladin, Pope Innocent III, Peter the Hermit, Richard I of England, Frederick I of Germany, Francis of Assisi, Stephen of Cloyes and others.
Second Edition — Routledge, 2017. — 324 p. Crusading and the Crusader States explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled society of the eleventh century, and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans. It follows the progress of the major crusading expeditions, offering insights into initial success and subsequent failure, charts the...
Oneworld Publications, 2015. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1780745931; ISBN13: 978-1780745930. In 1095 Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade to recover Jerusalem from the Seljuq Turks. Tens of thousands of people joined his cause, making it the single largest event of the Middle Ages. The conflict would rage for over 200 years, poisoning Christian and Islamic relations forever. In this...
Oneworld Publications, 2015. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1780745931; ISBN13: 978-1780745930. In 1095 Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade to recover Jerusalem from the Seljuq Turks. Tens of thousands of people joined his cause, making it the single largest event of the Middle Ages. The conflict would rage for over 200 years, poisoning Christian and Islamic relations forever. In this...
Reference Point Press, 2014 - 96 p. Foreword 6. Important Events of the Crusades. What Were the Crusades? Clash of Cultures. Crusaders March to the Holy Land. Crusaders Battle for Jerusalem. Saladin’s Army Defeats the Crusaders. Constantinople in Ruins: e Crusaders’. Great Betrayal. For Further Research. Picture Credits.
Brill Academic Pub, 2024. — 437 p. — (History of Warfare 143). Medieval Westerners accepted killing for religion and eulogized the outcome of the First Crusade. Their attitude to violence was also ambivalent and fragmented. This book explains how religious violence was depicted, justified, and remembered in the sources of the First Crusade.
Leiden: Brill, 2013. — 368 p. — (The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades). In Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers Michael Köhler presents a fully integrated study of Frankish-Muslim diplomacy in the period from the First Crusade through to the thirteenth century. It is a ground-breaking study that challenges preconceived notions of the relations...
London, Continuum Group, 2009. — 211 p. The most extraordinary siege in medieval history began with the arrival of a Christian army at Jerusalem on the dawn of Tuesday, 6 June, 1099. Other sieges may have lasted longer, involved greater numbers of troops, and deployed more siege engines but nothing else in the entire medieval period compares to the extraordinary journey that...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008 - 324 p. ISBN10: 9004166653 ISBN13: 9789004166653 (eng) The First Crusade (1096-1099) was an extraordinary undertaking. Because the repercussions of that expedition have rippled on down the centuries, there has been an enormous literature on the subject. Yet, unlike so many other areas of medieval history, until now the First Crusade has failed...
Kindle Edition. — New York: 1919. — 25 p. The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia was a state formed in the Middle Ages by Armenian refugees, who were fleeing the Seljuk invasion of Armenia. It was initially founded by the Rubenian dynasty, an offshoot of the larger Bagratid family that at various times held the thrones of Armenia and Georgia. While the Rubenian rulers were initially...
Dumbarton Oaks, 2001. — 365 p. The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World is the result of scholarly reassessments of the Crusades on the 900th anniversary of the appearance of crusading armies outside Nicaea. The views expressed here complement the considerable number of other examinations that focused on the internal, Western, aspects of the movement...
Brill, 2017. — 514 p. The Uses of the Bible in Crusader Sources sets out to understand the ideology and spirituality of crusading by exploring the biblical imagery and exegetical interpretations which formed its philosophical basis. Medieval authors frequently drew upon scripture when seeking to justify, praise, or censure the deeds of crusading warriors on many frontiers....
Paris: Victor Lecou, 1854. — 368 p. Les circonstances actuelles de la guerre d Orient donnent a juste titre un interet tres- vif a tout ce qui se rattache, de pres ou de loin, a l'histoire de Constantinople , ce point si convoite et si dispute depuis l etablissement des Grecs de Megare , qui sous la conduite de Byzas , y fonderent une colonie.
Atlantic Books, 2016. — 320 p. In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to whom the parcel was addressed: Reynald de Chatillon - a man who died 800 years ago. But who was...
Atlantic Books, 2016. — 320 p. In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to whom the parcel was addressed: Reynald de Chatillon - a man who died 800 years ago. But who was...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 325 p. n a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead for 800 years. Born in twelfth-century France and bred for violence, Reynald de Chatillon was a young knight who joined the Second Crusade and rose through the ranks to become the preeminent figure in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem,...
Bellona, 1995. — 233 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The siege of Jerusalem is one of the key events of the First Crusade. Occurred from June 7 to July 15, 1099, as a result the city was captured by the Crusaders. The successful outcome of the siege led to the completion of the First Crusade and the creation of crusader states in Asia Minor. Ostatnie kilometry dzielące od Świętego...
Routledge, 2017. — 354 p. The county of Tripoli in what is now North Lebanon is arguably the most neglected of the so-called ‘crusader states’ established in the Middle East at the beginning of the twelfth century. The present work is the first monograph on the county to be published in English, and the first in any western language since 1945. What little has been written on...
Brepols, 2019. — 344 p. — (Essays in Honour of Christopher Tyerman). A volume of essays exploring the European motivations, practicalities, and legacies of the crusades with essays by leading medieval historians evaluating and extending the life-long work of Christopher Tyerman, who has emphasized the study of the influence of crusading on all aspects of life in medieval and...
Routledge, 2014. — 414 p. Despite the enormous literature on the crusades, the Frankish states in the Aegean (set up in the wake of the Fourth Crusade in 1204) have been seriously neglected by modern historians. Yet their history is both compelling in itself - these were the last crusader states to be set up in the eastern Mediterranean and among the last to fall to the Turks -...
London: Routledge, 2006. — 527 p. A compilation of facts, figures, maps, family trees, summaries of the major crusades and their historiography, the Routledge Companion to the Crusades spans a broad chronological range from the eleventh to the eighteenth century, and gives a chronological framework and context for modern research on the crusading movement. Not just a history of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. - 272 p. - The Middle Ages Series In December 1235, Pope Gregory IX altered the mission of a crusade he had begun to preach the year before. Instead of calling for Christian magnates to go on to fight the infidel in Jerusalem, he now urged them to combat the spread of Christian heresy in Latin Greece and to defend the Latin empire of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, 272 p. In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Muslims and Jews but also local Christians, whose culture and traditions were a world apart from their own. The crusader-occupied swaths of Syria and Palestine were home to many separate...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014 - 264 p. What is the relationship between the medieval crusades and the problems of the modern Middle East? Were the crusades the Christian equivalent of Muslim jihad? In this sweeping yet crisp history, Thomas F. Madden offers a brilliant and compelling narrative of the crusades and their contemporary relevance. Placing all of the major...
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2004. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0-472-11463-8. The Crusades were a centuries-long series of military campaigns in a violent struggle between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Such wars were fought not only against Islamic empires in Asia Minor, the Holy Land and throughout the Mediterranean region, but also within Europe against heretics,...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 212 p. These essays, selected from papers presented at the International Symposium on Crusade Studies in February 2006, represent a stimulating cross-section of this vibrant field. Organized under the rubric of "medieval worlds" the studies in this volume demonstrate the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of modern crusade studies, extending far beyond...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 306 p. In Narrating the Crusades, Lee Manion examines crusading's narrative-generating power as it is reflected in English literature from c.1300 to 1604. By synthesizing key features of crusade discourse into one paradigm, this book identifies and analyzes the kinds of stories crusading produced in England, uncovering new evidence for...
Spellmount, 2015. — 320 p. The Albigensian crusade (1209-1229) by the Catholic Church against the Cathar heretics of southern France is infamous for its brutality and savagery. Marked by massacres and acts of appalling cruelty, these deeds are commonly ascribed to the role of religious fanaticism. This book is the first to offer a dedicated military history of the whole...
Routledge, 2018. — 368 p. For almost sixty years Professor David Jacoby devoted his research to the economic, social and cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean and this new collection reflects his impact on the study of the interactions between the Italian city-states, Byzantium, the Latin East and the realm of Islam. Contributors to this volume are prominent scholars...
New York: A.S. Armstrong & Son, 1882. — 493 p. "When we cast a retrospective glance over the periods we have described, we congratulate ourselves upon not having lived in those times of war and trouble ; but when we look around us, and reflect upon the age of which we form a part, we fear we have little reason to boast over the epochs commonly termed barbarous. During...
Boydell Press, 2009. — 245 p. The Teutonic Order was founded in 1190 to provide medical care for crusaders in the kingdom of Jerusalem. In time, it assumed a military role and played an important part in the defence of the Christian territories in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the Baltic regions of Prussia and Livonia; in the Levant, it fought against the neighbouring...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 319 p. The First Crusade (1095–1099) has often been characterised as a head-to-head confrontation between the forces of Christianity and Islam. For many, it is the campaign that created a lasting rupture between these two faiths. Nevertheless, is such a characterisation borne out by the sources?Engagingly written and supported by a wealth of...
Basic Books, 2018. — 256 p. In 1119, the people of the Near East came together in an epic clash of horses, swords, sand, and blood that would decide the fate of the city of the Aleppo - and the eastern Crusader states. Fought between tribal Turkish warriors on steppe ponies, Arab foot soldiers, Armenian bowmen, and European knights, the battlefield was the amphitheater into...
Routledge, 2017. — 240 p. The Fifth Crusade represented a cardinal event in early thirteenth-century history, occurring during what was probably the most intensive period of crusading in both Europe and the Holy Land. Following the controversial outcome of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, Pope Innocent III's reform agenda was...
Routledge, 2017. — 240 p. The Fifth Crusade represented a cardinal event in early thirteenth-century history, occurring during what was probably the most intensive period of crusading in both Europe and the Holy Land. Following the controversial outcome of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, Pope Innocent III's reform agenda was...
St. Martin's Press, 2014. — 272 p. Jerusalem sits at the crossroads of three continents and has been continuously invaded for millennia. Yet, in the middle of one of the region's most violent eras, the Crusades, an amazing multicultural world was forming. Templar knights, Muslim peasants, Turkish caliphs, Jewish merchants, and the native Christians, along with the children of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 329 p. The Crusades were a startling and spectacular phenomenon that exerted a powerful influence on European development over a period of many centuries. Much recent writing has been devoted to explaining how the crusades began and what they achieved. This volume is intended as an introductory guide and analysis of how different aspects of crusading...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 224 p. — ISBN: 1-84176-943-6. Combines material previously published as Campaign 19: Hattin 1187 , Warrior 10: Saracen Faris 1050-1250 , Warrior 91: Knight Templar 1120-1312 , with new images, and a new introduction and conclusion. This book tells the story of the momentous campaign that led to the Muslim capture of Jerusalem in 1187, following the...
Brepols Publishers, 2016. — 409 p. This volume offers a comparative approach to the crusades outside the Holy Land, focusing on Iberia and the Baltic region. The two theatres of war shared a number of characteristics such as the longevity and nature of the ongoing warfare to which the crusade ideas were applied. This comparative study thus throws further light not only onto...
Pocket Essential, 2005. — 144 p. — (Pocket Essential series). Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This Pocket Essential traces the chronology of...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 224 p. On taking the cross, crusaders received a diverse set of privileges designed to appeal to both spiritual and more temporal concerns. Among these was the papal protection granted to them and extended over their families and possessions at home. This book is the first full length investigation of this protection. It begins by examining the privilege...
Brill, 2018. — 304 p. Crusade scholarship has exploded in popularity over the past two decades. This volume captures the resulting diversity of approaches, which often cross cultures and academic disciplines. The contributors to this volume offer new perspectives on topics as varied as the application of Roman law on slavery to the situation of Muslims in the Latin East, Muslim...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012 - 296 p. Few events in European history generated more historical, artistic, and literary responses than the conquest of Jerusalem by the armies of the First Crusade in 1099. This epic military and religious expedition, and the many that followed it, became part of the collective memory of communities in Europe, Byzantium, North Africa, and...
Cooper Square Press, 2000. — 456 p. This is a comprehensive account of the eight religious wars between the Christian West and the Muslim East that dominated the Middle Ages. Calling themselves "pilgrims of Christ", thousands of Europeans from all stations in life undertook the harsh and bloody quest to reclaim Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and Christ's tomb for...
Second edition. — University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. — 336 p. The First Crusade received its name and shape late. To its contemporaries, the event was a journey and the men who took part in it pilgrims. Only later were those participants dubbed Crusaders — "those signed with the Cross." In fact, many developments with regard to the First Crusade, like the bestowing of the...
London, 2004. Vol. 54 (5). — P. 21 — 28. In 1202, zealous western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by the shrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on Constantinople, wreaking devastation so terrible and inflicting scars so deep that as recently as 2001...
Clarendon Press, 1996. — 378 p. For most observers, the decades between the great crusading expeditions of the twelfth century saw little contact of note between the Holy Land and Western Europe. In fact, as the neighbouring Muslim powers exerted increasing pressure on the crusaders, the Christians mounted a sustained diplomatic effort to secure outside help. This original...
Random House, 2009. — 464 p. — eISBN: 978-1-58836-975-8. In his remarkable book, Jonathan Phillips explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. He draws on contemporary writings - on chronicles, songs, sermons, travel diaries and peace treaties - to throw a brilliant new light on people and events we thought...
Pearson Education, Longman, 2002, - 247 p. The idea of the crusade remains a potent one. In this compelling account, Jonathan Philips moves away from modern constructs and possible misconceptions of the crusades, to explore the origins and development of the idea in its historical context. Through a mixture of narrative and thematic chapters, the book provides both an outline...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 364 p. The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. But, to the shock and dismay of a society raised on the triumphant legacy of the First Crusade, only in...
Brill Academic Publishing, 2017. — 337 p. In The Ottoman Threat and Crusading on the Eastern Border of Christendom during the Fifteenth Century Liviu Pilat and Ovidiu Cristea focus on less-known aspects of the later crusades in Eastern Europe, examining the ideals of holy war and political pragmatism. They analyze the Ottoman threat and crusading as political themes through a...
Bellona, 1990. — 242 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Varna took place on 10 November 1444 near Varna in eastern Bulgaria. The Ottoman Army under Sultan Murad II defeated the Hungarian–Polish and Wallachian armies commanded by Władysław III of Poland (also King of Hungary), John Hunyadi (acting as commander of the combined Christian forces) and Mircea II of Wallachia. It...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. — 307 p. James M. Powell here offers a new interpretation of the Fifth Crusade's historical and social impact, and a richly rewarding view of life in the thirteenth century. Powell addresses such questions as the degree of popular interest in the crusades, the religious climate of the period, the social structure of the membership of the...
Ashgate, 2006. — 395 p. How were the Crusades made possible? There have been studies of ancient, medieval and early modern warfare, as well as work on the finances and planning of Crusades, but this volume is the first specifically to address the logistics of Crusading. Building on previous work, it brings together experts from the fields of medieval Western, Byzantine and...
Boydell Press, 2008. — 230 p. For much of the twelfth century the ideals and activities of crusaders were often described in language more normally associated with a monastic rather than a military vocation; like those who took religious vows, crusaders were repeatedly depicted as being driven by a desire to imitate Christ and to live according to the values of the primitive...
McFarland & Company, 2013. — 232 p. The notion of Christianity as a religion of peace was severely tested during the Middle Ages, when killing in the name of God became a sanctified act. In this book, Tim Rayborn traces the development of the early Crusades, Christian views of war and violence, and its attitudes toward Islam, primarily during the turbulent period of the 11th...
McFarland & Company, 2013. — 232 p. The notion of Christianity as a religion of peace was severely tested during the Middle Ages, when killing in the name of God became a sanctified act. In this book, Tim Rayborn traces the development of the early Crusades, Christian views of war and violence, and its attitudes toward Islam, primarily during the turbulent period of the 11th...
Doubleday, 2001. — 408 p. Acclaimed author James Reston, Jr.'s "Warriors of God" is the rich and engaging account of the Third Crusade (1187-1192), a conflict that would shape world history for centuries and which can still be felt in the Middle East and throughout the world today. James Reston, Jr. offers a gripping narrative of the epic battle that left Jerusalem in Muslim...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 288 p. There is a vigorous debate on the exact beginnings of the Crusades, as well as a growing conviction that some practices of crusading may have been in existence, at least in part, long before they were identified as such. "The Prehistory of the Crusades" explores how the Crusades came to be seen as the use of aggressive warfare to Christianise...
Translated by Jean Birrell. — Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 530 p. — (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks). This is a translated edition of J. Richard's "History of the Crusades" (originally printed in French, 1996). A concise history of the crusades - whose chief goal was the liberation and preservation of the 'holy places' of the middle east - from the first calls to arms in...
Submitted for the degree of Ph.D.. — Durham: University of Durham, 1998. In the period lasting from shortly before the fall of Acre to the cancellation of Philip Vi's crusade in 1336, a plethora of treatises was written offering advice on how the Holy Land could be recovered. Historians have viewed them as a novel and distinctive feature of the crusade in this period, and they...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 468 p. In this collection of essays, the story of the Crusades is told as never before in an engrossing and comprehensive history that ranges from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideals and imagery that continues today. Here are the ideas of apologists, propagandists, and poets about the Crusades, as well as...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 476 p. In The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, the story of the Crusades is told as never before in an engrossing, authoritative, and comprehensive history that ranges from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of the crusading ideals and imagery that continues today. Here are the ideas of apologists, propagandists,...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 470 p. — ISBN10: 0-19-285428-3, ISBN13: 978-0-19-285428-5 In The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, the story of the Crusades is told as never before in an engrossing, authoritative, and comprehensive history that ranges from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of the crusading ideals and imagery that continues...
Continuum, 2003. — 236 p. — ISBN: 0-8264-6726-1 Focusing on the inner-workings of the First Crusade in a way that no other work has done, The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading delves into the Crusade's organization, its finances, and the division of authority and responsibility among its leaders and their relationships with one another and with their subordinates. In the...
4th edition — Ignatius Press, 2009. — 128 p. Few attempts had been made to define 'the crusade' before this book was first published in 1977. Since then, a number of historians have built on Jonathan Riley-Smith's original conclusions. Now in its fourth edition, this classic starting point for the study of the crusading movement has been updated to take into account the latest...
London: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992. — 482 p. — SBN 978-0-87131-657-8 Over the past thousand years, the bloodiest game of the king-of-the-hill has been for supremacy on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon. This book recounts the stirring saga of the Knights Templar, the Christian warrior-monks who occupied the sacred Mount in the aftermath of...
Brepols Publishers, 2015. — 338 p. A seminal article published by Giles Constable in 1953 focused on the genesis and expansion in scope of the Second Crusade with particular attention to what has become known as the Syrian campaign. His central thesis maintained that by the spring of 1147 the Church "viewed and planned" the Second Crusade as a general Christian offensive...
Basic Books, 2011. — 424 p. — ISBN10: 0465019293; ISBN13: 978-0465019298; eISBN: 978-0-465-02748-4. At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders — their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads — indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Ma'arra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 523 p. Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is being reissued. This volume deals completely with the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem. As Runciman says in his preface: 'Whether we regard the Crusades as the most tremendous and most...
Epopea e storia della prima crociata (1096-1099). Piemme, 1996. ISBN: 8838425531. 123 pagine. Considerate come la più romantica delle imprese cristiane oppure come l’ultima invasione barbarica, le Crociate rimangono una delle più emozionanti e avventurose storie di tutti i tempi. Chi per espiare le penitenze, chi per brama di potere; chi per il desiderio di vedere i luoghi...
Einaudi, 2005. ISBN: 9788806174811. 1250 pagine. Le Crociate sono state un evento centrale nell'Europa medievale che ha modificato il corso della storia e i rapporti fra le religioni cristiana e islamica: Steven Runciman ricostruisce, con rigore scientifico e uno stile limpido, questa epica e terribile avventura. «Sia che si considerino come la piú straordinaria e la piú...
The University of Wisconsin press, 1969. — 747 p. The fundamental work about first European expansion experience - the Crusades from their intellectual origins to practice (the siege of Jerusalem and Muslim retaken).
The University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. — 901 p. The Norman Kingdom of Sicily The third crusade The Crusades of Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI Byzantium and the Crusades The Fourth Crusade The Latin Empire The Frankish state in Greece The Albigensian crusade The Children Crusade
The University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. — 856 p. Abbreviation The crusade in the Fourteenth century Byzantium and the Crusades The Morea The Catalans in Greece The Hospitallers at Rhodes
The University of Wisconsin Pess, 1977. — 462 p. Abbreviation Life among the Europeans in Palestine and Syria Pilgrimages Ecclesiastical Art Painting and Sculpture
The university of Wisconsin Press, 1989. — 740 p. Politic theory of Crusade Crusade propaganda Financing the Crusades Social evolution Ottoman Turks Crusader Coinage
Routledge, 2018. — 308 p. This volume is a collection of nineteen original essays by leading specialists on the history, historiography and memory of the Crusades, the social and cultural aspects of life in the Latin East, as well as the military orders and inter-religious relations in the Middle Ages. Intended to appeal to scholars and students alike, the volume honours...
Ashgate Publishing, 2013. — 258 p. This volume has been created by scholars from a range of disciplines who wish to show their appreciation for Professor John France and to celebrate his career and achievements. For many decades, Professor France’s work has been instrumental in many of the advances made in the fields of crusader studies and medieval warfare. He has published...
Scarecrow Press, 2003. — 286 p. — (The A to Z Guide Series). During the late 11th through the early 14th centuries at least seven major expeditions were made between Western Europe and the Holy Land with the goal of ending Muslim control of Jerusalem. Ultimately the crusaders were driven out, but not before a cultural exchange had taken place that had an immense impact on...
2nd edition — Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 320 p. This is a revised edition of R. C. Smail's classic account of the military achievements of the Crusaders in the context of a "feudal society organized for war". A new bibliographical introduction and an updated bibliography have been provided by Christopher Marshall, while the original plates section has been replaced by...
2nd edition — Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 320 p. This is a revised edition of R. C. Smail's classic account of the military achievements of the Crusaders in the context of a "feudal society organized for war". A new bibliographical introduction and an updated bibliography have been provided by Christopher Marshall, while the original plates section has been replaced by...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 375 p. On 15 July 1099, the participants of the First Crusade prosecuted a bloody conquest of Jerusalem and then visited the site they had longed to see: the church of the Holy Sepulchre, thought to be the site of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection. Many contemporary accounts detail their emotional responses. With ‘abounding passions’, wrote...
Cambridge University Press. 1987. - 536 p. This volume describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the re-conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin. The main theme in this volume is warfare.
Cambridge University Press. 1987. - 543 p. Originally published in 1954 to great critical acclaim, this classic work is now elegantly reissued. Whether regarded as the most romantic of expeditions or the manifestation of greed for power and booty, the Crusades remain some of the most colorful adventure stories in history.
Ashgate, 2011. — 242 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7546-6582-3 (hardcover); 978-1-4094-2400-0 (ebook). Only recently have historians of the crusades begun to seriously investigate the presence of the idea of crusading as an act of vengeance, despite its frequent appearance in crusading sources. Understandably, many historians have primarily concentrated on non-ecclesiastical phenomena such...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 424 p. During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, which evolved during the course of the battles. In this ambitious new work, Steve Tibble draws on a wide range of Muslim texts and archaeological evidence as well as more commonly cited Western sources to analyze...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 424 p. During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, which evolved during the course of the battles. In this ambitious new work, Steve Tibble draws on a wide range of Muslim texts and archaeological evidence as well as more commonly cited Western sources to analyze...
Edited by Peter Lock — Ashgate Publishing, 2011. — 486 p. — (Crusade Texts in Translation 21) This is the first full translation of Marino Sanudo Torsello's Secreta fidelium Crucis to be made into English. The work itself is a piece of crusading propaganda following the fall of Acre in 1291, written between 1300 and 1321, but it includes much of historical relevance along with...
Introduction by Christopher Tyerman — Penguin Books, 2011. — 300 p. The fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to an army of exhausted and starving western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events in history - with a legacy that remains controversial more than nine centuries later. This remarkable collection contains firsthand accounts from the knights, religious leaders,...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 264 p. — ISBN-10: 0192803255; ISBN-13: 978-0192803252. The image of the Crusaders--chain-mailed knights on horseback, bearing crosses on banners, fighting for their faith under an alien sun--occupies a familiar niche in modern western culture. Yet despite their powerful hold on our imaginations, the Crusades remain obscured and distorted by...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 1040 p. God's War offers a sweeping new vision of one of history's most astounding events: the Crusades. From 1096 to 1500, European Christians fought to recreate the Middle East, Muslim Spain, and the pagan Baltic in the image of their God. The Crusades are perhaps both the most familiar and most misunderstood phenomena of the medieval world, and here...
Penguin Books, 2015. — 432 p. A spirited and sweeping account of how the crusades really worked - and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle Ages. The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the Pope's calls to arms to the battlefield. In...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 167 p. — (Very Short Introductions). With flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman presents a clear and lively discussion of the Crusades, bringing together issues of colonialism, cultural exchange, economic exploitation, and the relationship between past and present. He considers the effects of the Crusades on ordinary life in Western Europe,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 184 p. The astonishing outbreak of religious fervour and military self-confidence that led to the great Christian expeditions to invade the Holy Land during the twelfth century have become such an established part of European myth that it has become almost impossible to view these events as they were seen by contemporaries. The towering historical...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 520 p. A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders. Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 520 p. A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders. Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of...
Dar Al-Salam, 2007. — 212 p. Talking about the lives of our great figures in history, leaders in Jihad, and men in the field of reformation is the best talk and the most beloved remembrance because they were the guiding lights for people. Salah Ad-Din was one of those who guided people to the right path. One may ask why the author preferred Salah Ad-Din's biography to other...
Cambridge: TSR Inc, 1994. — 95 p. — ISBN10: 1560768584, ISBN13: 978-1560768586. The material in this book draws from European and Middle Eastern history from the start of the First Crusade in 1095 to the conclusion of the Third, in 1192. When the Crusades were first launched at the end of the 11th century, Western Europe was emerging from a period of cultural stagnation known...
Routledge, 2015. - 569 p. A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and ending with the Turkish attack on Belgrade in 1456, this reference is a comprehensive guide to...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 288 p. Using primarily Muslim sources, 'Sacred Swords' reconstructs the politics of the Levant on the eve of the First Crusade and places it in the wider context of the Muslim world of the period. This was a realm where war with the Crusaders was only one part of the military and political endeavours of a Muslim prince of the Levant.
London: Variorum Reprints, 1976. — 412 p. Robert Lee Wolff (1915, New York City – 1980, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Harvard history professor, known for his 1956 book "The Balkans in our time" and another widely used textbooks in high school and undergraduate history courses. The Latin Empire of Constantinople. Romania: The Latin Empire of Constantinople. The ‘Second...
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