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• Bartlett
(Wayne), God
Wills It: An Illustrated History of the Crusades
by . Fully illustrated, this book reveals the whole dramatic history
of the Crusades. (UK)
• Bridge (Antony), The Crusades.
Dutch translation: De Kruistochten, twee eeuwen verbitterde strijd.
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• Connell
(Evan S.), Deus
Lo Volt! A Chronicle of the Crusades. This fictional account of
the Crusades is a fascinating hybrid of scholarship and swordplay.
(Review © Amazon.com) (UK)
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France (John), Western Warfare
in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. First edition. 327 pages with
illustrations; endnotes; appendix: the Battle of Bouvines, 27 July
1214; bibliography; and index. A good discussion of various aspects
of military history during the the High Middle Ages. There are chapters
on weapons, technology, cavalry, infantry, castles, armies, commanders,
tactics, and the Crusades.
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• Gabrieli
(Francesco), Arab
Historians of the Crusades. Dorset Press coyright 1957, ISBN 0
88029 452 3. Excerpts from general histories of the Muslim world;
chronicles of cities, regions, and their dynasties; and other historical
records. (UK)
• Gibb (H.A.R.; English trans.), The
Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades,
(London: Luzac, 1932)
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• Hazard (Harry W., editor. Kenneth M.
Setton, general editor). A
History of the Crusades. Volume III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Centuries. Madison: The University
of Wisconsin Press, 1975. 1st edition. 813 pages with maps, footnotes,
list of important dates and events, gazetteer and note on maps, and
index. The third book in Setton's 6 volume history of the Crusades.
Dealing with expeditions and Crusades of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, this volume includes articles by scholars such as Aziz
Atiya, Kenneth Setton, Harry Hazard and Deno Geanakoplos on the Catalan
Company, the Crusader states in Greece, the Hospitallers at Rhodes,
the kingdom of Cyprus, the Hussite Crusades and other topics.
• Hazard (Harry W., editor. Kenneth M.
Setton, general editor). A
History of the Crusades. Volume IV: The Art and Architecture of the
Crusader States. Madison: The University
of Wisconsin Press, 1977. 1st edition. 414 pages plus 10 page addenda
for volumes 1-4 with figures, plates, footnotes, maps, gazetteer and
note on the map, and index. The fourth volume of the University of
Wisconsin's 6 volume history of the Crusades. This volume discusses
the art and architecture, both religious and secular, associated with
the Crusader kingdoms in the Palestine, Greece, and Cyprus. Among
the contributors are T. S. R. Boase, Henry Savage, David Wallace,
and Jaroslav Folda.
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• Lock
(Peter), The Franks in the Aegean,
1204-1500, Pearson UK, 1995:
- Ahrweller, H., ( 1975), "'L'expérience nicéene'",
DOP, 29:21-40.
- Alexander, P., ( 1962), "'The struggle for empire and capital
as seen through Byzantine eyes'", Speculum, - 37:339-52.
- Andrews, K., ( 1953), Castles of the Morea, ( Princeton, 1953, reprinted
Amsterdam, 1978).
- Angold, M., ( 1975), A Byzantine Government in Exile, ... 1204-1261,
( Oxford).
- Angold, M., ed., ( 1980), "'The interaction of Latins and Byzantines
during the period of the Latin Empire: the case of the ordeal'",
Actes du XVe Congrès international des Etudes byzantines, (
Athens), 4: 1-10.
- Angold, M., ed., ( 1984), The Byzantine Aristocracy, IX to XIII
Centuries, ( BAR, Oxford).
- Angold, M., ( 1984), The Byzantine Empire, 1025-1204.
- Arbel, B., et al., eds., ( 1989), Latins and Greeks in the Eastern
Mediterranean after 1204.
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• Maalouf
(Amin and Jon Rothschild), The
Crusades Through Arab Eyes. The author has combed the works of
contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades. He retells their story
and offers insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and
Islamic consciousness today. (UK)
• Mackay (Angus, Ed.), Atlas of
Medieval Europe. This is an excellent reference;
all the maps are in clear black & white and, unlike more general
historical atlases, it has sufficient details about numerous geographical
areas and topics in our time period for the serious medievalist.
• Madden (Thomas F.), A
Concise History of the Crusades. Places the Crusades within the
medieval social, economic, religious, and intellectual environments
that gave birth to the movement and nurtured it for centuries. (UK)
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Phillips (J.R.S.),
The Medieval Expansion of Europe,
(Europeans to Outremer), (OUP: Oxford, 1988) discusses the Crusades
as the first stage of a generally greater awareness of the outside
world on the part of western Europeans. He looks at early medieval
conceptions of the world and then traces the expansion of these conceptions
through the Crusades, trading expeditions across the Mongol Empire
and diplomatic/ spying missions sent by the popes to the Great Khans.
Phillips links this general broadening of the western European world
view, and the linked enterprises of exploration and trade, to early
explorations of Africa by the Portugese and the beginning of the Age
of Exploration. Phillips' third chapter is on the significance of
the Crusades (and commerce) in this expansion. He touches on the question
of European migration to the Holy Land as a result of the Crusades,
pointing out that, not surprisingly the vast majority of the Crusader
Kingdoms' inhabitants were local Muslims and Christians. But he also
argues many of the local Nestorian, Orthodox and Coptic Christians
seem to have migrated *within* the Crusader States, such as those
who moved to Jerusalem: replacing the Arabs massacred or driven away
in the capture of the city by the First Crusade. There was a migration
of Europeans which followed in the wake of the First Crusade's success,
even though it was relatively small and specialised. Pilgrims came
in large numbers and many stayed. New Crusaders and their retinues
and households also migrated to the Holy Land, along with many French,
German and Italian peasants 'lured there by the prospect of personal
freedom and the priveleged status of burgess'. The leaders of the
First Crusade, who went on to become the rulers of the new Crusader
kingdoms, were largely from families which were powerful in Europe,
but some obscure Crusading families rose to prominence once established
in the east - Phillips cites the families of the Toron and Ibelin
as examples. He argues that it was much harder for later noble arrivals
to break into this elite, even if they were from notable European
families - though Reynald of Chatillon was one exception to this rule.
• Powell
(James
M.), Crusading:
1099-1999,
Inaugural Lecture, Malta Study Center Lecture Series. Presented at
Saint John's University, Collegeville, MN, October 28, 1999.
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• Read
(Piers Paul),
The Templars. The dramatic history of the Knights Templar, the
most powerful military order of the Crusades. (UK)
• Richard (Jean), The
Crusades,
C. 1071-C. 1291 by translated by Jean Birrell. A concise, general
history of the Crusades from the first calls to arms in the later
11th century to the fall of the last Crusader strongholds in Syria
and Palestine in 1291. (UK)
• Runciman (Steven), A
History of the Crusades.
N.Y.,
1965. Fine stylist and very influential. Contains useful discussions
of primary sources. A
trilogy. Volume I is about the first Crusade and the foundation of
the kingdom of Jerusalem. Volume II is about Jerusalem and the Frankish
East, 1100-1187. Volume III is about the kingdom of Acre and the later
Crusades.
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• Tate
(Georges),
The
Crusaders: Warriors of God,
translated
by Lory Frankel. How the Europeans ultimately defeated themselves,
and how the bloody 200-year confrontation between two worlds led to
mutual hostility and misunderstanding that persists to this day. (UK)
• The
Crusades Book Store, Crusades
Bookstore,
provides reviews and information on
a selected range of books about the holy wars fought between Christians
and Muslims in the eleventh to fourteenth centuries.
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Williams (Paul), The
Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades. Learn why the wars began,
why they continued for so long, and how their impact still resonates.
This book discusses the religious beliefs, great leaders, and epic
battles of the Crusades; the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Jersualem;
and the Islamic view of the Crusades. Includes an introduction to
the Dark Ages, the origins of holy orders of knights, and more. (UK)
• Wise (Terence), Armies
of the Crusades. From the Men-at-Arms series. (UK)
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Zacour (Norman P.,
and Harry W. Hazard, editors. Kenneth M. Setton, general editor).
A History of the Crusades.
Volume V: The Impact of the Crusades on the Near East.
The University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. First edition. 599 pages
with footnotes, gazetter and note on maps, maps, and index. The fifth
volume of this excellent six volume series on the Crusades. This volume
feature ten essays on the Crusader States and the Middle East. The
essays include 1. Arab Culture in the Twelfth Century, 2. The Impact
of the Crusades on Moslem Lands, 3. Social Classes in the Crusaders
States: The "Minorities," 4. Social Classes in the Latin
Kingdom: The Franks, 5. The Political and Ecclesiastical Organization
of the Crusader States, 6. Agricultural Conditions in the Crusader
States, 7. The Population of the Crusader States, 8 The Teutonic Knights
in the Crusader States, 9. Venice and the Crusades, 10. Missions to
the East in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.
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