Jerusalem Archive
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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. -
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. -
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. -
The Evolution of the Saladin Legend in the West
Posted on November 18, 2012 | No CommentsWilliam of Tyreʼs account of the history of the Crusades stops suddenly in 1184. As he lays down his pen he is in despair at the inevitable outcome which he foresees for the struggle with Saladin. It was fortunate for him that he did not live to see the triumph of Saladin at Hattin and Jerusalem. Williamʼs judgement of Saladin, there- fore, is one of fear and admiration but he is also able to criticize his faults, especially his ruthless ambition. -
Salutare Animas Nostras: The Ideologies Behind the Foundation of the Templars
Posted on November 18, 2012 | No CommentsThe meteoric rise of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon (more commonly known as the Knights Templar) and their equally swift fall has fueled fanciful tales and scholarly research. The order promoted their mythological origins and the extreme charges leveled against them by Philip IV of France (1285-1314) created an atmosphere of speculation. -
Religion, Warfare and Business in Fifteenth Century Rhodes
Posted on October 25, 2012 | No CommentsHow did a military-monastic order manage the resources of an island commercially asimportant as that of Rhodes while overcoming the limitations due to its patrimonial struc-tureto cover their defensive needs? In this essay weattempt to answer this question interms of practice and in the light of relationsthatthe Knights maintained with two distinctgroups of merchants: the Catalan-Aragonese and the Florentines. -
Through the Eyes of a Crusader: An Intensive Study Into the Personal Involvement of Two Men in the Fourth Crusade
Posted on September 21, 2012 | No CommentsWhat was going through the minds ofthese men who were fighting for the cross when they attacked a Christian city, which was one oftheir allies? -
Catholic, Crusader, Leper and King: The Life of Baldwin IV and the Triumph of the Cross
Posted on September 17, 2012 | No CommentsBaldwin IV was born in Jerusalem of King Amalric and Queen Agnes of Courtney in 1161. Intellectually and physically gifted as a boy, he seemed well equipped to inherit the Crusader kingdom. -
The Great Men of Christendom: The Failure of the Third Crusade
Posted on August 29, 2012 | No CommentsIt is my intention to show that the participation of monarchs in the Third Crusade had an adverse effect on the outcome of the Crusade. Whatever positive aspects of monarchical involvement in the Third Crusade were to be had can be seen at the beginning of the venture, when the Church needed financial and material support, as well as the prestige that royal participation could offer. -
The papacy and the crusaders in the East, 1100-1160
Posted on August 26, 2012 | No CommentsThis dissertation attempts to illuminate papal policy towards the Crusaders in the East by an analysis of the relationships of: 1) the Byzantine Empire to the Papacy and the Crusaders; 2) the Papacy to the spiritual and temporal powers of the Latin Orient; 3) the Papacy to the crusade movement in Europe and to Christendom as a whole -
Medieval reads for Dad!
Posted on June 15, 2012 | No CommentsFather’s Day is just around the corner - here are some fun medieval reads to make his day special! -
Jerusalem in Medieval Christian Thought
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsIn the prophetic tradition, the dwelling of God is understood as a spiritual one. Yet, in spite of the expressed manner in which Jerusalem was called The Holy City, an element of imperfection remained. -
‘Stronger than men and braver than knights’: women and the pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome in the later middle ages
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsPilgrimage, like any other form of travel in the later middle ages, was time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. -
From Jerusalem to Malta: the Hospital’s character and evolution
Posted on February 10, 2012 | No CommentsIn 1113 Girardus secured an important papal privilege which recognized the Hospital's independence; its members were considered to be in some sense technically religious and they were given the power to elect their own ruler. -
Byzantine-era Christian prayer box discovered in Jerusalem
Posted on November 1, 2011 | No CommentsA miniature Christian prayer box decorated with a cross has been uncovered in archaeological excavations in Jerusalem -
The Political Crusades – A useful historiographical concept?
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsThe Political Crusades – A useful historiographical concept? Følner, Bjarke MA. Honours, University of Edinburgh (2001) Abstract This paper deals with the modern historiographical concept of the “political crusades”. The... -
FROM THE STATELY TO THE SMUTTY: SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS OF THE CRUSADES IN AN ILLUMINATED CHRONICLE
Posted on July 27, 2011 | No CommentsFROM THE STATELY TO THE SMUTTY: SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS OF THE CRUSADES IN AN ILLUMINATED CHRONICLE Leson, Robert Oeuvre, Newsletter of the Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Spring (2009)... -
The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü, and Abaqa: Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism?
Posted on July 27, 2011 | No CommentsThe Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü, and Abaqa: Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism? Aigle, Denise (French Institute for the Middle East – Damascus) Inner Asia 7 (2005) Abstract This paper deals... -
Exempla and lineage: Motives for crusading, 900-1150
Posted on July 25, 2011 | No CommentsExempla and lineage: Motives for crusading, 900-1150 Robert H. Bouskill (McGill University, Montréal) M.A. Thesis, History, McGill University (1996) Abstract From 900 to 1150, major institutional and political changes took... -
The Crusader Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Posted on July 19, 2011 | No CommentsThe Crusader Church of the Holy Sepulchre Burke, Tiffany L. (University of Notre Dame Department of History) University of Notre Dame, March 22 (2002) Abstract The main focus of this essay... -
Representations of Jerusalem in Christian-European Maps from the 6th to the 16th Centuries: A Comparative Tool for Reading the Message of a Map in its Cultural Context
Posted on July 19, 2011 | No CommentsRepresentations of Jerusalem in Christian-European Maps from the 6th to the 16th Centuries:A Comparative Tool for Reading the Message of a Map in its Cultural Context Siew, Tsafra (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Center... -
Why Jerusalem? Why then? A study of the religious significance of Jerusalem to the West in 1095
Posted on July 19, 2011 | No CommentsWhy Jerusalem? Why then? A study of the religious significance of Jerusalem to the West in 1095 Larson, Erin (Clemson University) PhD Thesis, Clemson University, May (2010) Abstract One of the... -
Sharing Sacred Space: Holy Places in Jerusalem Between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Posted on May 29, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the most intriguing phenomena in the study of sacred space and pilgrimage to holy places is how believers of different faiths may share sanctity.
