Keeper Of The Grail
Keeper Of The Grail By Michael P. Spradlin Publisher: Penguin Young Reader Group, September 18, 2009 ISBN: 9780399247637 1191 A.D. The orphan Tristan…
Trail of Fate
Trail of Fate By Michael P. Spradlin Publisher: Penguin Young Reader Group, November 3, 2009 ISBN: 9780399247644 In the Middle Ages, young squire…
Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch Nicholas Cage, Ron Perlman, Christopher Lee Release date: (March 19, 2010) Medieval knight Behmen undertakes a mission pitting him…
Bernard of Clairvaux and the Knights Templar: The New Knighthood as a Solution to Violence in Christianity
Using writings from Bernard of Clairvaux and other religious and secular writers of the time, this thesis will examine how the crusades were originally meant to redeem Europe from its violent nature, not to extend that violence.
The Idea of the Jihad in Islam before the Crusades
The Idea of the Jihad in Islam before the Crusades By Roy Parviz Mottahedeh and Ridwan al-Sayyid The Crusades from the Perspective of…
The Historiography of the Crusades
The Historiography of the Crusades By Giles Constable The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, edited by Angeliki E. Laiou…
Domestic Settings: Sources on Domestic Architecture and Day-to-Day Activities in the Crusader States
Domestic Settings: Sources on Domestic Architecture and Day-to-Day Activities in the Crusader States By Adrian J. Boas Brill, 2010 ISBN: 978 90 04…
Robin Hood
Synopsis: Oscar winner Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as “Robin Hood” whose exploits have endured in popular mythology…
Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood
Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood By Tony Lee Publisher: Candlewick Press, September 22, 2009 ISBN:9780763644000 How did Robin of Loxley become Robin…
Marino Sanudo Torsello, Byzantium and the Turks: The Background to the Anti-Turkish League of 1332-1334
Marino Sanudo Torsello, Byzantium and the Turks: The Background to the Anti-Turkish League of 1332-1334 By Angeliki Laiou Speculum, Vol. 45, No. 3,…
THE CHANGING POSITION OF THE SERVING BROTHERS AND THEIR CARITATIVE FUNCTIONS IN THE ORDER OF ST JOHN IN JERUSALEM AND ACRE, ca 1070-1291
THE CHANGING POSITION OF THE SERVING BROTHERS AND THEIR CARITATIVE FUNCTIONS IN THE ORDER OF ST JOHN IN JERUSALEM AND ACRE, ca 1070-1291…
The Templar Knight: Book Two Of The Crusades Trilogy
The Templar Knight: Book Two Of The Crusades Trilogy By Jan Guillou Publisher: Harper Collins, May 4, 2010 ISBN:9780061688577 The Knight Templar (Swedish:…
The Road To Jerusalem: Book One Of The Crusades Trilogy
The Road To Jerusalem: Book One Of The Crusades Trilogy By Jan Guillou Publisher: Harper Collins, April 14, 2009 ISBN: 9780061688539 For power.…
The Liturgy of the Liberation Jerusalem
The Liturgy of the Liberation Jerusalem By Bernard Sabella Verso Gerusalemme (Atti del II Convegno internazionale nel IX Centenario della I Crociata [1099-1999]…
The participation of the nobility in the reconquest and in the military orders
The participation of the nobility in the reconquest and in the military orders By José Augusto de Sotto Mayor Pizarro E-Journal of Portuguese…
Interview with Laurence Marvin – The Occitan War: A Military And Political History Of The Albigensian Crusade, 1209–1218
The Albigensian Crusade of the early-thirteenth century was a key moment in Europe’s medieval history. The crusade was launched by Pope Innocent III in…
Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology
Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology Edited by Clifford J. Rogers Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-19-533403-6 From the Viking invasions…
Rashi’s Daughters Book Three: Rachel
Rashi’s Daughters Book Three: Rachel By Maggie Anton Publisher: Plume, 2009 ISBN: 9780452295681 Rachel is the youngest and most beautiful daughter of medieval…
Petrarch’s Vision of the Muslim and Byzantine East
Petrarch’s Vision of the Muslim and Byzantine East By Nancy Bisaha Speculum, Vol. 76:2 (2001) Introduction: Born just thirteen years after the fall of…
The Alexandrian Crusade (1365) and the Mamluk Sources: Reassessment of the kitab al-ilmam of an-Nuwayri al-Iskandarani
The Alexandrian Crusade (1365) and the Mamluk Sources: Reassessment of the kitab al-ilmam of an-Nuwayri al-Iskandarani By Jo Van Steenbergen East and West…
Cooking Pots as Indicators of Cultural Change: A Petrographic Study of Byzantine and Frankish Cooking Wares from Corinth
Cooking Pots as Indicators of Cultural Change: A Petrographic Study of Byzantine and Frankish Cooking Wares from Corinth By Louise Joyner Hesperia, Vol.76:1…
Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 film directed by Ridley Scott. It is set in the late-12th century Holy Land, when the Crusaders…
Warrior Geopolitics: Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and the Kingdom of Heaven
Ridley Scott’s three movies, “Gladiator”, “Black Hawk Down” and most recently “The Kingdom of Heaven” explore the morality and identity of warriors. They do so in exotic landscapes and settings that emphasize the confrontation with danger as external and frequently unknowable and political violence as something that has complicated geographies.
The acquisition of the landed estates of the Hospitallers in the Latin East, 1099-1291
The acquisition of the landed estates of the Hospitallers in the Latin East, 1099-1291 By Paul Sideklo PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1998…
Richard I and the Science of Warfare
My own strategy will be twofold. First, to take Richard I’s military carer as a model of medieval generalship. Second, to use vernacular sources wherever possible, in the belief that the vernacular brings us close than Latin to the thoughts and actions of soldiers.