Crusades Archive
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The Jerusalem Conquest of 492/1099 in the Medieval Arabic Historiography of the Crusades: From Regional Plurality to Islamic Narrative
Posted on May 14, 2013 | No CommentsA number of contemporary or near-contemporary Arabic texts leave no doubt that a massacre did take place, but they contain no evidence of large-scale carnage of the town’s population that was any greater than that which took place in cities and towns such as Antioch, Caesarea or Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān. -
The Crusades: A Modern Perspective on the 900th Anniversary of the Event
Posted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsThe Crusades were not wars between states or nations but a great ideological conflict between two cultures: Christian Europe and the Islamic Near East. -
Peter of Dusburg’s attitude towards the Holy Land in the Crusades Period
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsPeter of Dusburg, a monk and brethren of the Teutonic Order had been one of the greatest Chronicles writers of the Military Order. He had written his book 'Chronicon Terrae Prussiae' in Latin in 1326, during the tenure of the Teutonic Grand Master Werner von Orseln. -
From Montpèlerin to Tarabulus al-Mustajadda: The Frankish-Mamluk Succession in Old Tripoli
Posted on April 21, 2013 | No CommentsModern Tripoli still shows the division into two different urban areas existing since the Middle Ages. Until the arrival of the Crusaders Tripoli merely consisted of the ancient town on the coast. -
Muslim Perspectives on the Military Orders during the Crusades
Posted on April 15, 2013 | No CommentsWhat caused the particular enmity between Saladin and the Templars and Hospitallers? To understand this situation one must begin with examination of Muslim perspectives on monasticism in general. -
Peter the Hermit: Straddling the boundaries of lordship, millennialism, and heresy
Posted on April 2, 2013 | No CommentsHe preached Pope Urban II’s call to crusade against the Muslims of the Holy Land. He raised an army of paupers with the goal of marching from northern France to conquer Jerusalem. These hosts never reached their destination. -
Essential and despised: Images of women in the First and Second Crusades, 1095-1148
Posted on April 2, 2013 | No CommentsThe image of women in the First and Second Crusades was inherently dualistic and oppositional. The evidence shows women who were vigorous and active participants in the crusades. -
Cross relationships between Cyprus and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Teutonic Military Order Tradition
Posted on April 1, 2013 | No CommentsThis article will shed new light on the relationships and connections that developed between members of the Teutonic Order based in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and various elements of the population on the island of Cyprus. -
Colonization activities in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Posted on March 24, 2013 | No CommentsThe following paper is an attempt to describe one important feature of the social and economic problems of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: The colonization activities of the Crusaders in the Holy Land. -
Hungary and the Second Crusade
Posted on March 20, 2013 | No CommentsThe aim of the present study is to survey and analyze the role played by Hungary during the Second Crusade and through this scholarly goal it is to bridge the gap which can be observed in Hungarian historiography. -
BOOKS: Happy St. Patrick Day! New reads to celebrate Medieval Ireland!
Posted on March 17, 2013 | No CommentsBOOKS: Happy St. Patrick Day! New reads to celebrate Medieval Ireland! -
Monarchy and nobility in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099-1131: establishment and origins
Posted on February 22, 2013 | No CommentsThe Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, established by the victorious crusaders in Palestine in July 1099, was one of the first colonial societies of the Middle Ages. -
The Wendish Crusade of 1147
Posted on February 17, 2013 | No CommentsThe so-called Wendish Crusade of 1147 was actually part of the Second Crusade of the same time period. It was fought on German soil, largely by Saxon Germans (some Danes as well) against the pagan tribes of Wends -
How parasites went on Crusade
Posted on February 12, 2013 | No CommentsThe contents of crusader latrines are helping researchers probe the history of parasite infections in humans. -
Great Battles: The First Crusade
Posted on February 1, 2013 | No CommentsIt really seemed like the final bitter and wretched end to an endlessly long and brutal march and an endless horrific siege. -
Mi‘ilya: Evidence of an Early Crusader Settlement
Posted on January 29, 2013 | No CommentsFifty-six diagnostic sherds, dating to the Crusader period, were found in a pit. Most of them represent local Crusader types, with a few belonging to imported types. The chronological range of the Crusader-period pottery dates from the mid-twelfth to the early thirteenth centuries CE. -
My kingdom in pledge : King Sigismund of Luxemburg’s town pledging policy, case studies of Segesd and Bartfa
Posted on January 13, 2013 | No CommentsThis thesis strives to present a small part of this huge and complex topic by analyzing one of the most interesting aspects of Sigismund’s pledging policy, namely, pldeges of the towns. -
The Effect of Killing the Christian Prisoners at the Battle of Nicopolis
Posted on January 7, 2013 | No CommentsThe Ottoman Turks acted against the customary laws of war, which bound both Christians and Muslims even when fighting one another: no prisoner of war was ever to be executed, especially if he was a noble! -
The Crusades Go Global: Crusading in the 16th Century
Posted on December 26, 2012 | No CommentsToday I will argue that the crusades, an already well-established, world-historical movement went global in the 16th century. -
Holy War as a theme in World History: A Prolegomenon to Further Research
Posted on December 26, 2012 | No CommentsMy new research, which goes far beyond the theology and practice of holy war within Christianity and Islam, is still in its early stages, but today I propose to offer some preliminary thoughts on holy war as a global phenomenon and, as time allows, to discuss in a bit of detail the crusades. -
Querimonia desolacionis terre sancte – The fall of Acre and the Holy Land in 1291 as an emotional element in the Teutonic Order tradition
Posted on December 24, 2012 | No CommentsThose Military Orders − the Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights, along with other Military Orders, had shed their blood across the Latin Kingdom and suffered many casualties in the final siege which took place in Acre between March and May 1291. -
King and magnate in medieval Ireland: Walter de Lacy, King Richard and King John
Posted on December 17, 2012 | No CommentsPerhaps the best way to capture the essence of the relationship between Richard, John and their magnates is to focus on one such relationship and to analyse the changes it underwent over the twenty-seven years the two brothers ruled England. The career of Walter de Lacy provides an excellent opportunity for such an analysis. -
Environmental impact of the Baltic Crusades: deforestation, animal extinction, dogs no longer on the menu
Posted on December 11, 2012 | No CommentsA multidisciplinary project seeks to understand the environmental impact of the Baltic Crusades. Horses, for example, aided the Christians in battle, while the castles the Crusaders built decimated forests. -
Labyrinth, Part 2
Posted on December 8, 2012 | No CommentsSo we continue with the exciting conclusion of last week's two part mini-series, Labyrinth. Alice is being pursued by unsavory attackers, and Carcassonne has all but fallen. -
The Indigenous Christians of the Arabic Middle East in an Age of Crusaders, Mongols, and Mamlūks (1244-1366)
Posted on December 2, 2012 | No CommentsThe chronological period of study is highlighted by the usurpation of the Ayyūbid-ruled Sultanate by the Baḥrī Mamlūks, while the two most important political-military events in the region were the collapse of the Crusader States and the invasion of the Mongols. This thesis will examine how events impacted on the nine Christian Confessions, treating each separately.
