Articles on the Crusades

This section lists articles related to the Crusades, in the Middle East and in other parts of Europe. Most of the articles are from our own website, but some go to external sites.

Allen, Terry, Ayyubid Architecture (2003)

Antoche, Emanuel Constantin, Les expéditions de Nicopolis (1396) et de Varna (1444): une comparaison - from Mediævalia Transilvanica, v.4:1-2 (2000)

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

Chevedden, Paul, The Invention of the Counterweight Trebuchet: A Study in Cultural Diffusion (please also the plates) - from Dumbarton Oaks Papers v.54 (2000) (PDF file)

Christie, Niall G.F., The Presentation of the Franks in Selected Muslim Sources from the Crusades of the 12th Century - Unpublished M.Litt dissertation, University of St. Andrews, 1996

Dajani-Shakeel, Hadia, A Reassessment of Some Medieval and Modern Perceptions of the Counter-Crusade - from The Jihad and its Times: Dedicated to Andrew Stefan Ehrenkreutz (1991)

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)

Dennis, George T., Defenders of the Christian People: Holy War in Byzantium - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file)

Duncan, David J., Scholarly Views Of Shajarat Al-Durr: A Need For Consensus - from Arab Studies Quarterly (2000)

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

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

Ehlers, Axel, The Crusade of the Teutonic Knights against Lithuania reconsidered - from Crusade and conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150-1500 (2001)

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

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

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

Fuess, Albrecht, Rotting Ships and Razed Harbors: The Naval Policy of the Mamluks - from Mamluk Studies Review v.5 (2001)

Gillingham, John, Richard I and the Science of Warfare - from War and Government: Essays in Honour of J.O. Prestwich (1984)

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

Hamblin, William J., Saladin and Muslim Military Theory - from The Horns of Hattin (1992) (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)

Humphreys, R. Stephen, Ayyubids, Mamluks, and the Latin East in the Thirteenth Century - from Mamluk Studies Review v.2 (1998)

Imber, Colin, The Reign of Bayezid I, 1389-1402 - from The Ottoman Empire 1300-1481 (1990)

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

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

Kedar, Benjamin Z., The Battle of Hattin Revisited - from The Battle of Hattin (1992)

Kosto, A.J., Hostages during the First Century of the Crusades - from Medieval Encounters v.9:1 (2003)

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)

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)

Mackenzie, Neil D., The Fortifications of al-Qahira (Cairo) under the Ayyubids - from The Jihad and its Times: Dedicated to Andrew Stefan Ehrenkreutz (1991)

Magdalino, Paul, The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade (Toronto, 1996)

Maier, Christopher T., The roles of women in the crusade movement: a survey - from The Journal of Medieval History v.30 n.1 (2004

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)

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)

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

Muresan, Dan Ioan, Avant Nicopolis: la campagne de 1395 pour le contrôle du Bas-Danube - from Quaderni della Casa Romena di Venezia v.3 (2004)

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

Omran, Mahmoud Said, John Kinnamos as a Historian of the Second Crusade - from Uluslararasi Hacli Seferleri Sempozyumu (1999)

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

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The Venetian Crusade of 1122-1124 - from I Comuni Italiani nel Regno Crociato di Gerusalemme (1986)

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

Saunders, JJ, The Significance of Egypt - from Aspects of the Crusades (1962)

Schein, Sylvia, From 'Milites Christi' to 'Mali Christiani': The Italian Communes in Western Historical Literature - I Comuni Italiani nel Regno Crociato di Gerusalemme (1986)

Schein, Sylvia, Between East and West: the Jews in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem 1099-1291 - from East and West in the crusader states : context, contacts, confrontations v.1 (1996)

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

Steenbergen, Jo Van The Alexandrian Crusade (1365) and the Mamluk Sources: Reassessment of the kitab al-ilmam of an-Nuwayri al-Iskandarani - from East and West in the crusader states : context, contacts, confrontations v.3 (2003)

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

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

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

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

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