Warfare during the Crusades

Amitai-Preiss, Reuvan, Mamluks and Mongols: an overview - from chapter 10 of his Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281 (1995) - added January 1, 2003

Balard, Michel, Les transports maritimes genois vers la Terre Sainte - from I Comuni Italiani nel Regno di Gerusalemme (1986) (PDF file) - added February 3, 2003

Balard, Michel, La poliorcétique des Croisés lors de la Premiere Croisade - from Byzantinische Forschungen v.25 (1999) - added May 12, 2003

Barber, Malcolm, The Templars - from ORB: The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies - added July 19, 2002

Barber, Malcolm, Frontier Warfare in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: The Campaign of Jacob's Ford, 1178-79 - from The Crusades and their Sources (1998) - added November 24, 2002

Barber, Malcolm, The Albigensian Crusades: Wars Like Any Other? - from Dei gesta per Francos (2001) - added December 28, 2002

Beech, George T., A Norman-Italian Adventurer in the East: Richard of Salerno, 1097-1112 - from Anglo-Norman Studies v.15 (1993) - added June 1, 2003

Bennett, Matthew, La Régle du Temple as a Military Manual or How to Deliver a Cavalry Charge - from Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. Allen Brown (1989) - added June 9, 2003

Bertrand, Marc, The First Crusade: A Military Analysis - Master's thesis, 1996 (PDF file) - added March 4, 2003

Carrier, Marc, L’Image du Grec selon les Chroniqueurs des Croisades: Perceptions et Reactions face au cérémonial Byzantin ,1096 à 1204 - (2000) - added July 11, 2003

Carrier, Marc, Perfidious and Effeminate Greeks: the Representation of Byzantine Ceremonial in the Western Chronicles of the Crusades (1096-1204) - from Annuario dell'Instituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica Venezia (2002) - added July 11, 2003

Christie, Niall G.F., The Presentation of the Franks in Selected Muslim Sources from the Crusades of the 12th Century - Unpublished M.Litt dissertation, University of St. Andrews, 1996 - added March 8, 2002

Constable, Giles, The Historiography of the Crusades - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file) - added September 5, 2002

Cowdrey, H.E.J., Pope Urban II's Preaching of the First Crusade - from The Crusades: Essential Readings, edited by Thomas Madden (2002) (PDF file) - added September 13, 2002

Dajani-Shakeel, Hadia, Some Medieval Accounts of Salah al-Din's Recovery of Jerusalem (Al-Quds) - from Studia Palaestina: Studies in honour of Constantine K. Zurayk (1988) - added July 24, 2002

Edbury, Peter, Looking Back on the Second Crusade: Some Late Twelfth-Century English Perspectives - from The Second Crusade and the Cistercians (1992) - added July 17, 2002

Edgington, Susan, Pagan Peverel: An Anglo-Norman Crusader - from Crusade and Settlement (1985) - added September 27, 2002

Endmann, Philip, Die Schlacht vor Nikaia am 17. Mai 1097 in militärgeschichtlicher Perspektive - from Concilium medii aevi v.4 (2001) - added September 27, 2002 (PDF file)

Ferzoco, George, The Origin of the Second Crusade - from The Second Crusade and the Cistercians (1992) - added September 5, 2002

France, John, The capture of Jerusalem - from History Today (1997) - added May 12, 2002

France, John, Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade - from Reading Medieval Studies v.10 (1984) - added September 5, 2002

France, John, The Roots of Victory - from chapter 1 of Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade (1994) - added January 1, 2003

Francis, Dominic, Oliver of Paderborn and his Siege Engine at Damietta - from Nottingham Medieval Studies v.37 (1993) - added March 8, 2002

Gilmour-Bryson, Anne, The Trial of the Templars in Cyprus - from ORB: The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies - added June 3, 2002

Gore, Terry, The First Battle of the First Crusade: Dorylaeum, 1097 - from The History Net: Military History - added June 3, 2002

Grabois, Aryeh, Militia and Malitia: The Bernardine Vision of Chivalry - from The Second Crusade and the Cistercians (1992) - added July 17, 2002

Hamblin, William J., Saladin and Muslim Military Theory - from The Horns of Hattin (1992) - added February 3, 2003 (PDF file)

Hoch, Martin, The Crusaders' Strategy Against Fatamid Ascalon and the "Ascalon Project" of the Second Crusade - from The Second Crusade and the Cistercians (1992) - added November 15, 2002 (PDF file)

Hoch, Martin, The Choice of Damascus as the Objective of the Second Crusade: a re-evaluation - from Autour de la Première Croisade (1996) - added February 3, 2003

Inalcik, Halil, The Conquest Of Edirne (1361) - from Archivum Ottomanicum, III, (1971) - added January 1, 2003

Inalcik, Halil, The Question of the Emergence of the Ottoman State - from International Journal of Turkish Studies (1980) - added January 1, 2003

Inalcik, Halil, Osman Ghazi's Siege of Nicaea and the Battle of Bapheus - from The Ottoman Emirate: 1300-1389 (1993) - added October 30, 2002

Irwin, Robert, Muslim responses to the Crusades - from History Today (1997) - added May 12, 2002

Jeffreys, Elizabeth and Jeffreys, Michael, The "Wild Beast from the West ":Immediate Literary Reactions in Byzantium to the Second Crusade - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file) - added September 5, 2002

Jensen, Kurt Villads, Valdemar the Victorious - the wildcard in pope Innocent's Northern policy - from a conference paper (1998) - added December 20, 2002

Jensen, Kurt Villads, The Barbarization of the Northerners as a result of the First Crusade - from a conference paper (1999) - added December 20, 2002

Jensen, Kurt Villads, What was the centre of the crusading movement? Some Scandinavian examples of the Concept Crusader State - from a conference paper (2000) - added December 20, 2002

Kazhdan ›, Alexander, Latins and Franks in Byzantium: Perception and Reality from the Eleventh to the Twelfth Century - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file) - added September 5, 2002

Kedar, Benjamin Z., The Battle of Hattin Revisited - from The Battle of Hattin (1992) - added July 26, 2002

Kosztolnyik, Z.J., The Crusade of Andrew II - a chapter from his work Hungary in the Thirteenth Century (1996) - added August 30, 2002

Larsdatter, Karen, Women of Peace and War: The Roles of European Women at the Siege of Acre - from The Oak 13 - added June 3, 2002

Laiou, Angeliki E., Byzantine Trade with Christians and Muslims and the Crusades - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file) - added September 5, 2002

Lloyd, Simon, The crusades of St Louis - from History Today v. 47 (1997) - added May 12, 2002

Lyons, M.C., The Land of War: Europe in the Arab Hero Cycles - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file) - added September 5, 2002

Magdalino, Paul, The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade (Toronto, 1996) - added December 28, 2002

Marin, Serban, Venetian and Non-Venetian Crusaders in the Fourth Crusade, according to the Venetian Chronicles' Tradition - from Annuario. Istituto Romeno di cultura e ricerca umanistica v.4 (2002) - added January 13, 2003

Marshall, Christopher J., The Crusading Motivation of the Italian City Republics in the Latin East, c. 1096-1104 - from Rivista di Bizantinistica v.1 (1991) - added March 1, 2003

Marshall, Christopher J., The Use of the Charge in Battles in the Latin East, 1192 - 1291 - from Historical Research v.65 (1992) - added August 23, 2002

Marshall, Robert, From Prester John to Cultural Strangers - from chapter 5 of Storm from the East: From Genghis Khan to Khubilai Khan (1993) - added January 1, 2003

Martin, Robert W., Crusader Polirocetics: A Study in the Art of Siege Warfare in the Middle Ages - from The History Net: Military History - added June 3, 2002

Mottahedeh, Roy Parviz and al-Sayyid, Ridwan, The Idea of the Jihad in Islam before the Crusades - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file) - added September 5, 2002

Nicholson, Helen, Knights of Christ- The Templars, Hospitallers and other military orders in the eyes of their contemporaries, 1128-1291 - from ORB: The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies - added June 3, 2002

Nicholson, Helen, Serious Violence: Church justification for violence in the Middle Ages - from a conference paper (1998) - added October 30, 2002

Nicol, Donald, Constantine XI and Mehmed II: the fall of Constantinople 1448-53 - from chapter 18 of Last Centuries of Byzantium (1993) - added January 1, 2003

Nikolakopoulou, Marina, The First & the Second Crusade: The contribution of the Military Orders in the formation of the crusader states in the 11th c. - from Anistoriton v. 2 (1998) - added April 11, 2002

Noble, Peter S., Eyewitnesses of the Fourth Crusade - the War against Alexius III - from Reading Medieval Studies 25 (1999) - added August 23, 2002

Oikonomides, Nicolas, The Turks in Europe (1305-13) and the Serbs in Asia Minor (1313) - from The Ottoman Emirate: 1300-1389 (1993) - added October 30, 2002

Panagopoulou, Niki, The Armies and the Successes of the First Crusade (1095-1099) - from Anistoriton v. 3 (1999) - added April 11, 2002

Phillips, Jonathan, Who were the first Crusaders? - from History Today v.47 (1997) - added May 12, 2002

Queller, Donald E., and Katele, Irene B., Venice and the Conquest of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem - from Studi Veneziani v.21 (1986) - added September 5, 2002

Robbert, Louise Buengar, Venetian Participation in the Crusade of Damietta - from Studi Veneziani v.30 (1995) - added September 5, 2002

Schein, Sylvia, From 'Milites Christi' to 'Mali Christiani': The Italian Communes in Western Historical Literature - from I Comuni Italiani nel Regno di Gerusalemme (1986) (PDF file) - added February 3, 2003

Setton, Kenneth M. (ed.), A History of the Crusades - the entire six volume set has been made freely available by the University of Wisconsin-Madison - added May 10, 2002

Soucek, Svat, The Ottomans and Their Rivals, Galleys and Galleons, Portolan Charts and Isolarii - from Piri Reis & Turkish Mapmaking After Columbus: The Khalili Portolan Atlas (1995) - added January 1, 2003

Sugar, Peter, The Early History and the Establishment of the Ottomans in Europe - from Chapter 1 of Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 (1977) - added January 1, 2003

Thomson, Robert W., The Crusaders through Armenian Eyes - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file) - added September 5, 2002

Thomson, Rod, William of Malmesbury, Historian of Crusade - from Reading Medieval Studies v.23 (1997) - added August 23, 2002

Treadgold, Warren, Two Fights for Survival: 610-668 - from Chapter 9 of his A History of the Byzantine State and Society (1997) - added January 1, 2003

Tyerman, Christopher, Who Went on the Crusades to the Holy Land - from The Battle of Hattin (1992) (PDF file) - added September 5, 2002

Urban, William, The Sense of Humor among the Teutonic Knights of the Thirteenth Century - from Illinois Quarterly v.42(1979) - added October 30, 2002

Urban, William, Victims of the Baltic Crusades - from Journal of Baltic Studies v.29 (1998) - added October 30, 2002

Urban, William, Rethinking the Crusades - from Perspectives [newsletter of the American Historical Association] v.36 (1998) - added October 30, 2002

New Journal

Crusades: (A Journal from the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East)

Book Reviews

A Middle English Chronicle of the First Crusade - The Caxton Eracles, edited by Dana Cushing - reviewed by Helen Nicholson

Crusading and Warfare in Medieval and Renaissance Europe by Norman Housley - reviewed by David Hay

The Capture of Alexandria by Guillaume de Machaut, trans. Janet Shirley - reviewed by Clifford Rogers

Encounter between Enemies: Captivity and Ransom in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, by Yvonne Friedman - reviewed by Norman Housley

Dei Gesta per Francos: Crusade studies in honour of Jean Richard, edited by Michel Balard, Benjamin Z. Kedar and Jonathan Riley-Smith - reviewed by Paul Crawford

The Crusades, c.1071-c.1291, by Jean Richard, translated by Jean Birrell - reviewed by Kevin Madigan (Christian Century)

The Crusades, c.1071-c.1291, by Jean Richard, translated by Jean Birrell - reviewed by Christopher Tyerman (English Historical Review)

The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives, by Carole Hillenbrand; and The Crusades, c.1071-c.1291, by Jean Richard, translated by Jean Birrell - both reviewed by Malcolm Barber (History Today)

The Crusades and Crusader Societies, 1095-1500. Selected Proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 10-13 July 1995, edited by Alan V. Murray - reviewed by Miri Rubin (English Historical Review)

The Invention of the Crusades, by Christopher Tyerman - reviewed by Thomas F. Madden (The Historian)

The Invention of the Crusades, by Christopher Tyerman - reviewed by K. S. B. Keats-Rohan (English Historical Review)

A Concise History of the Crusades, by Thomas F. Madden - reviewed by Peter W. Edbury (English Historical Review)

Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300, by John France - reviewed by Peter W. Edbury (English Historical Review)

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, by Jonathan Riley-Smith - reviewed by Peter Jackson (English Historical Review)

Defenders of the Holy Land: Relations Between the Latin East and the West, 1119-1187, by Jonathan Phillips - reviewed by K.S.B. Keats-Rohan (English Historical Review)

The Military Orders Vol. II: Welfare and Warfare, edited by Helen Nicholson - reviewed by K. S. B. Keats-Rohan (English Historical Review)

The First Crusaders, 1095-1131, by Jonathan Riley-Smith - reviewed by Miri Rubin (English Historical Review)

The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople, by Donald E. Queller and Thomas F. Madden - reviewed by Louis Haas (The Historian)

The First Crusade. The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials, edited by Edward Peters - reviewed by K. S. B. Keats-Rohan (English Historical Review)

Crusader Castles, by Hugh Kennedy - reviewed by Christopher Tyerman (English Historical Review)

The Knight's Hospitaller, by Helen Nicholson - reviewed by Sophia Menache

The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437, edited by Thomas Fudge - reviewed by David Mengel

External Web Sites

http://www.unf.edu/classes/crusades/crusadesbibliography.htm - Crusades Bibliography - by Paul Halsall; this is a very large and comprehensive list of books and articles dealing with the Crusades.

http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/mmarkowski/ssclehome.html - Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East

http://www.ou.dk/hum/kvj/crusade/crusade_home.html - Denmark and the Crusading Movement - examines Danish participation in the crusades

http://crusades.boisestate.edu/index.html - History of the Crusades - a good course website by Skip Knox

http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/HistCrusades/ - A History of the Crusades - edited by Kenneth M. Setton, the entire six volume set has been made freely available by the University of Wisconsin-Madison

http://historymedren.about.com/cs/crusades/ - Medieval History - Crusades, from about.com - maintained by Melissa Snell

http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/religion/monastic/milindex.html - Military Orders: A Guide to Online Resources - part of the ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/religion/crusades/crusade.html - Crusades: An Online Guide to Resources - part of the ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

http://www.middleeastmedievalists.org/ - Middle East Medievalists (MEM) - association of scholars interested in the study of the Islamic lands of the Middle East during the medieval period

http://www.callisto.si.usherb.ca/~croisade/Byzance.htm - Les Croisades: Sources, Images et Histoire - includes articles and primary texts, mostly in French

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