"Between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, the social and cultural worlds of medieval Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean were transformed by the religious impetus of the crusades. Today we bear witness to these transformations in the material and environmental record revea…
This collection of thirteen original essays by leading archaeologists and historians - as well as by specialists on material culture - amounts to the first collection of articles for some time to focus on the contributions of archaeology to the study of the Crusades. The Crusade…
"Artillery in the Era of the Crusades provides a detailed examination of the use of mechanical artillery in the Levant through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Rather than focus on a selection of sensational anecdotes, Michael S. Fulton explores the full scope of the availa…
"Artillery in the Era of the Crusades provides a detailed examination of the use of mechanical artillery in the Levant through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Rather than focus on a selection of sensational anecdotes, Michael S. Fulton explores the full scope of the availa…
Introduction -- John of Joinville and the Vie de Saint Louis -- The presentation of crusades to potential participants -- The practice of crusading -- Crusading and knightly careers.
"This volume provides translations of texts on the Mamluk Sultan Qalāwūn (1279-90) and his son al-Malik al-Ashraf (1290-93), which cover the end of the Crusader interlude in the Syrian Levant. Translated from the original Arabic, these chronicles detail the Mamluk perception of …
"Examines Armenian, Arabic, English, and French lamentations over the loss of Jerusalem produced in the early crusading period"--
In 1071 Muslim Turks crushed the Byzantine Emperor's Anatolian army at Manzikert. The Crusades, the West's response to this catastrophe, are well known as are the names of the European nobles who fought in them. The names and deeds of many of the Crusaders' opponents in the Holy…
Problems in crusading historiography -- The papacy, the knighthood and the eastern Mediterranean -- Crusade and settlement,1095-c.1118 -- Politics and war in the Crusader states,1118-87 -- The Islamic reaction, 1097-1193 -- Crusader society -- Recovery in the east, new challenge…
Crusading and the Crusader States explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled Church of the 11th century, and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans. It follows the progress of the major crusading expeditions, offers insights into their co…
Crusading and the Crusader States explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled Church of the 11th century, and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans. It follows the progress of the major crusading expeditions, offers insights into their co…