HS 335: The Crusades Professor: Dr. Kelly DeVries Texts: Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The Crusades: A Short History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Allen, S.J. and Emilie Amt. The Crusades: A Reader. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2003. Gabrieli, Francesco, ed. and trans. Arab Historians of the Crusade. Trans. E.J. Costello. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. Schedule: Week 1 …
History 306 — The Crusades Thomas Madden Fall 2002 Required Reading Thomas F. Madden, A Concise History of the Crusades. The Crusades: The Essential Readings, ed., Madden Supplemental (Optional) Reading Carl Erdmann, Origins of the Idea of the Crusade. James A. Brundage, Medieval Law and the Crusader. Derek W. Lomax, The Reconquest of Spain. …
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The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa is considered by scholars to be a primary source of major importance for the history of the Near East during the period of the early Crusades. This work relates events that occurred between the years 952 and 1136, although a Gregory the Priest continued …
The following are two accounts of the invasion of Cyprus by Richard I in 1191. The Seljuk Turk under Saladin had recaptured Jerusalem in 1187 and Cyprus’ geographical position placed her on the route of the Crusaders from Western Europe to the Holy Land. The Cypriot ruler, Isaac Comnenos, in …
After the fall of Acre in 1291, Crusader forces had no remaining outposts in the Holy Land. The various Military Orders and other Crusaders began to make plans for a return almost immediately. In the following text, the Provincial Council of Canterbury met in February 1292, and came out with …
In the following letter, the Patriarch of Antioch describes events in the Crusader States that took place in 1164. To describe briefly, the King of Jersualem, Amalric I, joined forces with a Kurdish emir, Shirkuh, to besiege the Egyptian city of Bilbais. While Amalric was gone, the ruler of Damascus, …
Translated by Helen Nicholson from the editions in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores, ed.Bill Zajac. In 1153, Baldwin launched a major attack on Ascalon, with an army large enough to invest the great city completely. The siege dragged on for months, with the Egyptians unable to challenge the Franks on land, but …
David Nicolle Cross & Crescent in the Balkans: The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Military, 2010. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781844159543 Dr. David Nicolle is perhaps best known as the prolific author of many of the books in the Osprey series, but he is also author …
Cristina Tonghini Shayzar I: The Fortification of the Citadel Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2012. 539 pp. This book, an immense assembly of transcribed inscriptions, re-established floor plans, chemical analysis of mortar and construction materials is very much like the building—or rather set of buildings—it proposes to discuss. It intently focuses on …