True Crusader Crime: Criminality on Campaign
During the Middle Ages, maintaining discipline on campaign was always difficult – and commanders knew that criminality was a ‘gateway behaviour’ which opened up the path to an even greater breakdown of authority.
True Crusader Crime: Petty Crime and Petty Quarrels
High-profile crime might be plastered across the chronicles, but it was just the visible end of a much bigger problem. Criminality was everywhere.
True Crusader Crime: Medieval Muggers
Even petty crime was still common, and was enormously difficult to stop.
True Crusader Crime: Muslim Murder and Political Drama
The crusaders were tough – but they had no monopoly on political violence. Murders within Muslim hierarchies were relatively common too.
True Crusader Crime: What Bloody Man is That? Murder, Government and Power
Violence in the crusading period was endemic – and even at the top of society, tragic accidents were suspiciously commonplace.
True Crusader Crime: Murder Below Stairs
Life in the crusader states and their Muslim enemies could be harsh – and the strictures of that life occasionally drove people to murderous violence.
True Crusader Crime: Murdering Monks
Not surprisingly, the crusades were full of headstrong and heavily armed soldiers who were hard to police.
True Crusader Crime: Murder in an Age of Crusading – A Surfeit of Blood?
Murder in a time of perpetual war seems faintly ridiculous.