The Archaeology of Weapons : Arms and Armour from Prehistory to
the Age of Chivalry
by R. Ewart Oakeshott
Listed under Weapons
The
Alexiad of Anna Comnena. (The Penguin Classics)
by Anna Comnena
Paperback - 560 pages (May 1985)
Viking Pr; ISBN: 0140442154
Arab
Historians of the Crusades
by Francesco Gabrieli (Editor)
Paperback Reprint edition (July 1984)
Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520052242
Armies
of the Caliphates 862-1098 (Osprey Military Men-At-Arms, 320)
David Nicolle, Adam Hook
Paperback / Published 1998
Armies
of the Crusades (Men at Arms Series, 75)
by Terence Wise
Paperback - 40 pages (May 1978)
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 0850451256
The
Armies of Islam : 7th-11th Centuries (Men at Arms, 125)
by David Nicolle
Paperback - 48 pages (December 1984)
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 0850454484
Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350 : Western Europe
and the Crusader States
by David Nicolle
Listed under Ancient Weapons
Arms and Armor: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources
(Dover Pictorial Archive)
by Carol Belanger Grafton (Editor)
Listed under Medieval Clip Art
Byzantine Armies 1118-1461 (Osprey Men-At-Arms Series, No 287)
Ian Heath, et al
Listed under Byanantine Wars
The Capture of Constantinople: The Hystoria Constantinopolitana of
Gunther of Pairis
by Alfred J. Andrea (Editor)
Listed under Byanantine Wars
Contemporary
Sources for the Fourth Crusade (Medieval Mediterranean, Vol 29)
by Alfred J. Andrea (Editor)
Crusader
Knight
by Osprey Military
Paperback - 64 pages (April 1999)
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 1855329344
The
Crusades (Essential Histories, No 1)
by David Nicolle
Paperback: 96 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x
9.75 x 6.75
Publisher: Osprey Pub Co; ; (March 2001)
ISBN: 1841761796
The
Crusaders: Warriors of God
by Georges Tate, translated by Lory Frankel
Harry N Abrams; (April 1996)
The
Crusades, C. 1071-C. 1291 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
by Jean Richard, Jean Birrell (Translator)
(Paperback - November 1999)
The Crusades (Paper Soldiers of the Middle Ages Er.: Bk. 1)
by David Nicole
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A
Concise History of the Crusades
by Thomas F. Madden
Book Description 'God wills it!' With that cry of medieval knights
a new era in European history began. Across Europe a wave of pious enthusiasm
led many thousands to leave their homes, family, and friends to march to
a distant land in a great struggle for Christ. Yet the crusades were more
than simply a holy war. They represent a synthesis of attitudes and values
that were uniquely medieval--so medieval, in fact, that the crusading movement
is rarely understood today. This book places the crusades within the medieval
social, economic, religious, and intellectual environments that gave birth
to the movement and nurtured it for centuries. The events of the crusades
to Palestine and Europe's periphery are narrated in a clear, concise, and
compelling manner. Special attention is also given to the crusades' effects
on the Islamic world and the Christian Byzantine East. Also included is
a historiographical overview of the subject as well as an up-to-date select
biography.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield; (October 1, 1999)
Chronicles
of the Crusades
by Geoffrey De Villehardouin, Jean De Joinville, Margaret R. Shaw (Translator)
Paperback (October 1963)
Viking Pr; ISBN: 0140441247
The
Crusades Through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf, Jon Rothschild
Paperback Reissue edition (May 1989)
Schocken Books; ISBN: 0805208984
The
Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades : Extracted and Translated from the
Chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalanisi
by H. A. R. Gibb
Paperback from Dover Pubns
Book Published: 14 February, 2003
Dore's Illustrations of the Crusades
by Gustave Dore
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God
Wills It: An Illustrated History of the Crusades
by Wayne Bartlett
Book Description Fully illustrated, this glorious book reveals
the whole dramatic history of the Crusades and the 200 years when western
Christendom fought to establish Christianity in the place of its birth.
It is a saga rich in paradox and contradiction: worldly ambition and spiritual
self-sacrifice, pride and humility, extraordinary valor and despecable
cowardice.
It is above all a tale of humanity in all of its extremes, and a sad
record of how an ideal, misguided but well-intentioned, can become prostituted
and corrupted.
Publisher: Sutton Publishing; (September 2000)
Holy
War : The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
by Karen Armstrong (Preface)
(Paperback - November 2001)
The
Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
by Bernard Hamilton
Book Description: The reign of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem
(1174-85) has traditionally been seen as a period of decline when, because
of the king's illness, power came to be held by those who made the wrong
policy decisions. Notably, they ignored the advice of Raymond of Tripoli
and attacked Saladin. This book challenges that view, arguing that peace
with Saladin was not a viable option; and that the young king, despite
suffering from lepromatous leprosy, presided over a society that was (contrary
to what is often said) vigorous and self-confident.
Knights
at Tournament (Elite Series, 17)
by Christopher Gravett, Angus McBride (Illustrator)
(Paperback - March 1992)
Knight
of Outremer 1187-1344 AD
(Osprey Military Warrior Series, No 18)
by David Nicolle, Christa Hook (Illustrator)
The
Knights of Malta
by H. J. A. Sire
Paperback (October 1996)
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300068859
Lionhearts:
Richard 1, Saladin, and the Era of the Third Crusade
by Geoffrey Regan
Hardcover - 288 pages
Walker & Co; ISBN: 0802713548
Medieval Combat : A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting
and Close-Quarter Combat
by Hans Talhoffer, et al
Listed under Ancient Weapons
Medieval Siege Weapons: Western Europe AD 585-1385
by David Nicolle, Sam Thompson
Listed under Siege Weapons
The
Monks of War : The Military Religious Orders
by Desmond Seward
Paperback - 415 pages Reprint edition (March 1996)
Penguin USA
(Paper); ISBN: 0140195017
Nicopolis
1396 : The Last Crusade
(Campaign Series, 64)
by David Nicolle, David Nicolle PhD.
Paperback (November 1999)
The
Northern Crusades
by Eric Christiansen
The conquest and conversion of the pagan tribes of the Southern and
Eastern Baltic Coasts from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century.
Paperback - 320 pages 2nd edition (June 1998)
Penguin USA
(Paper); ISBN: 0140266534
Saladin
and the Saracens Armies of the Middle East 1100-1300
(Men-At-Arms Series, No 171)
David Nicolle
Paperback / Published 1986
Saracen
Faris 1100-1250 AD (Warrior, No10)
by David Nicolle, Christa Hook (Illustrator)
Paperback - 64 pages (July 1994)
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 1855324539
A Knight and His Weapons
by R. Ewart Oakeshott
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An Ungodly War: The Sack of Constantinople & the Fourth Crusade
by W. B. Bartlett
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Pelagius
and the Fifth Crusade
by Joseph P. Donovan
Hardcover: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x 9.00 x 6.00
Publisher: AMS Press; (June 1950)
ISBN: 0404154166
People
of the First Crusade
by Michael Foss
Publisher: Arcade Publishing; (October 1998)
The
Second Crusade: Scope and Consequences
edited by Jonathan Phillips and Martin Hoch; Giles Constable (Preface)
Book Description: The Second Crusade (1145-49) was an unprecedented
attempt to expand the borders of Christianity in the Holy Land, the Baltic,
and the Iberian peninsula. This wide-ranging collection offers a series
of original interpretations of new and partially explored evidence of the
crusade. The essays examine the planning, execution, and consequences of
the crusade for Western Europe, the Crusader States of the Holy Land, and
the Muslim Near East.
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr; (December 2001)
The
Second Crusade and the Cistercians
by Michael Gervers
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; (February 1992)
Saladin:
All-Powerful Sultan and the Uniter of Islam
by Stanley Lane-Poole
This compelling biography focuses on the ruler's sagacity and intelligence,
and explains why Saladin was a man admired - even by his enemies.
Cooper Square Press; (September 2002)
The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin
by Donald S. Richards (Translator)
Ashgate Publishing; (May 1, 2001)
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Saladin
in His Time
by P. H. Newby
Book Description: Honored by Christian and Muslim alike, celebrated
by Dante and Sir Walter Scott, Saladin reigns as the most famous of all
Islamic heroes. As sultan of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine, he achieved
great success in the wars against the crusaders--particularly with his
capture of Jerusalem. And, his disciplined army stood in marked contrast
to the Christians, who slaughtered indiscriminately following their victory
in 1099. This thoroughly researched biography shows Saladin as a skillful
diplomat, a generous but firm ruler, and a deeply religious man...who tragically
died without enough money to pay for his own grave.
Paperback: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.72 x
8.47 x 5.41
Publisher: Phoenix Press, London WC2; (June 2001)
ISBN: 1842122576
Saladin
in Egypt
by Yaacov Lev
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers; (June 1999)
Warriors
of God : Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
by James, Jr. Reston
Throughout the medieval era, the Holy Land was a fiercely contested
battlefield, fought over by huge Muslim and Christian armies, by zealots
and assassins. The Third Crusade, spanning five years at the end of the
12th century, was, writes James Reston Jr. in this absorbing account, "Holy
War at its most virulent," overseen by two great leaders, the Kurdish sultan
Salah ad-Din, or Saladin, and the English king Richard, forevermore known
as Lionheart.
Writing with a keen sense of historical detail and drama, Reston traces
the complex path by which Saladin and Richard came to face each other on
the field of battle. The Crusades, he observes, began "as a measure to
redirect the energies of warring European barons from their bloody, local
disputes into a 'noble' quest to reclaim the Holy Land from the 'infidel'."
Of the five Crusades over 200 years, only the first was successful, to
the extent that the Christian armies were able to conquer their objective
of Jerusalem. The Third Crusade, as Reston ably shows, was complicated
by fierce rivalries among the Christian leaders, by a chain of military
disasters that led to the destruction of an invading German army and its
emperor, and by the dedication of an opposing Islamic army that shared
both a goal and a language.
Saladin, Reston writes, was a brilliant leader and a merciful victor,
but capable of costly errors; Richard was extraordinarily skilled at combat,
but his lack of resolve cost him many battles, and, ultimately, Jerusalem.
Richard returned to Europe, Saladin to Damascus. Neither leader has long
to live, and the peace they made would soon be broken. James Reston's splendid
book does them both honor while examining a conflict that has never really
ended. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover - 240 pages (April 17, 2001)
Doubleday; ISBN: 0385495617 |
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Warriors
of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
by James, Jr. Reston
(Paperback -- May 14, 2002)
The First Crusade: Origin and Impact
by Jonathan Phillips
Manchester Univ Pr; (September 1997)
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The Crusades.
Buehr, Walter. New York: Putnam, 1959.
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Great Siege : Malta 1565 (Wordsworth Military Library.)
by Ernle Bradford
Paperback - 256 pages (June 1999)
Wordsworth Editions Ltd; ISBN: 1840222069
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Malta 1565 : Last Battle of the Crusades
(Osprey Military Campaign Series : 50)
by Tim Pickles, Christa Hook (Illustrator), Lee Johnson (Editor)
Paperback - 96 pages (September 1999)
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 1855328305
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Tales of the Crusades
Coolidge, Olivia E. Illus. Gustave Dore. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1970.
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The Story of the Crusades, 1097-1291.
Duggan, Alfred Leo.Illus. C. Walter Hodges. New York: Pantheon, 1964.
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The Crusade of Richard I, 1189-92 (English History from Contemporary
Writers.)
by Thomas A. Archer
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Richard the Lionheart and the Crusades.
Gibb, Christopher. Illus. Gerry Wood. New York: Bookwright, 1985.
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The Crusades
Hamilton, Franklin. Judith Ann Lawrence. New York: Dial, 1965.
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A Boy of the Lost Crusade.
Hewes, Agnes. Illus. Gustaf Tenggren. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.
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St. Louis and the Last Crusade.
Hubbard, Margaret Ann. Illus. Harry Barton.
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, 1958.
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The Crusades: A Short History.
Riley-Smith, Jonathan Simon Christopher. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.
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About Castles and Crusaders.
Sauvain, Philip Arthur. Illus. Jim Robins. New York: Warwick, 1986.
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Know About the Crusades.
Treece, Henry. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour, 1967.
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Unstead, R.J. Illus. Victor Ambrus. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1971.
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The Crusades.
West, Anthony. Illus. Carl Rose. New York: Random House, 1954.
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Knights of the Crusades.
Williams, Jay. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
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Wilmot-Buxton, E.M. New York: Crowell, 1923
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Of all the wars waged in the name of God, none has ever matched the
arrogance and conceit of the Christian Crusades. For nearly two centuries
(1095-1291), this medieval "holy war" variously raged, sometimes so spiritually
misshapen by rapaciousness, murder, and political greed that to think it
all had to do with Christian faith is absurd. And really, there is no one
better to dramatize such a theater of holy war than Wales-born Terry Jones,
host of The Discovery Channel's Ancient Inventions and an accomplished
medievalist. Best known for his absurdist contributions to all things Monty
Python--he was a founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus and cowriter
of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and Monty Python's The
Meaning of Life, among others--Jones wields an uncanny ability to explain
the methodologies and madness of the Crusades while not failing us his
sense of humor.
Jones wrote the scripts for each 50-minute presentation in the four
volumes of The Crusades, which originally aired on The History Channel.
His narration is not without an occasional sardonic air, almost of the
roll-your-eyes type, which not only lends a skeptical perspective to a
frequently misunderstood era in Western Europe, but also quite frequently
editorializes the events that occurred between Pope Urban II's call for
liberation of Jerusalem from the "infidels" of Islam and the embarrassing
moment when officers of the fourth Crusade are conned out of its divine
calling by the Venetians. While Jones's reconnaissance is sometimes oversimplified
by casually not mentioning several Crusade sorties after the fourth (there
were several, but by the 13th century they had become redolent of ennui
and misguided commercial adventure), the technical ingenuity of the production
and Jones's use of anecdote backed by academicians and preserved eyewitness
accounts cinches a viewer's interest. Medieval "siege machines" are re-created
to test their mettle against legends of famous battles, Jones dons real
11th- and 12th-century armor to demonstrate the outlandish appearance of
Crusaders in the lands of Mohammed, mosaics come to life with body-painted
characters of medieval fable, and computer graphics are deployed to re-create
the interior of the great cathedral at Cluny.
All these elements are contrasted with intermezzos of contemporary European
and Middle Eastern society and a moving original soundtrack to make The
Crusades a thoroughly engaging documentary of the bloodletting of medieval
Christian conquests and the ultimate result of Islamic fanaticism born
from its crimson tide. In Jones's own words at the end of Volume IV: "It
took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It
was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance." To understand the effects
of the Crusades is to understand much of today's religious geography, and
Mr. Jones and company can fairly lay claim to having helped set the record
straight. --Jamie Friddle - Amazon.com
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