Crusades Book List

Armstrong, Karen.  Holy War:  The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World.  New York:
    Anchor Books, 1988, 2001.

Asbridge, Thomas.  The First Crusade:  A New History, The Roots of Conflict Between
    Christianity and Islam.  Oxford:  The University Press, 2004.

Atiya, Aziz S. The Crusade in the Later Middle.  New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1970.

Barber, Malcolm.  The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple.  Cambridge:
    The University Press, 1994.
_____.  The Trial of the Templars. Cambridge:  The University Press, 1993.

Ben-Ami, Aharon. Social Change in a Hostile Environment: the Crusader's Kingdom of
Jerusalem.  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1969.

Billings, Malcom.  The Crusades:  Five Centuries of Holy Wars.  New York:  Sterling
Publications, 1996.  Formerly:  The Cross and the Crescent.

Brundage, James.  The Crusades: Motives and Achievements.  Boston:  Heath, 1964.
______. Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader.  Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.

Caner, Ergun Mehmet and Emir Fethi Caner.  Christian Jihad. Michigan:  Kregel Publications,
2004.

Chazan, R. European Jewry and the First Crusade.  Berkeley: University of California Press,
1987.

Edbury, Peter.  The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374. Cambridge:  The
University Press, 1991.
 
Edgington, Susan B. and Sarah Lambert, eds.  Gendering the Crusades.  New York:  Columbia
    University Press, 2002.

Erdmann, Carl. The Origin of the Idea of Crusade.  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
1977.

Foss, Michael.  People of the First Crusade.  New York:  Arcade Publishing 1997.

France, John.  Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press,
    1999.
______. Victory in the East: a Military History of the First Crusade.  Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994.

Godfrey, John.  1204, the Unholy Crusade. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Hill, John Hugh.  Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse.  Syracuse University Press, 1962.

Hillenbrand, Carole.  The Crusades:  Islamic Perspectives.  Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University,
1999.

Holt.  Peter.  The Age of the Crusades: The Near East From the Eleventh Century to 1517.  
New York:  Longman, 1986.

Houseley, Norman.  The Avignon Papacy and the Crusades, 1305-1378.  Oxford:  The
Clarendon Press, 1986.
______.  Contesting the Crusades.  Oxford:  Blackwell, 2006.
______.  The Crusades.  Charleston:  Tempus Publishing, 2002.
______.  The Later Crusades, 1274-1580, from Lyons to Alcazar.  New York: Oxford
    University Press, 1992.

Kedar, B. Z., H. E. Mayer, R. C. Smail.  Outremer: Studies in the History of the Crusading
Kingdom of Jerusalem Presented to Joshua Prawer.  Jerusalem : Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi
Institute, 1982.

Lilie, Ralph-Johannes.  Byzantium and the Crusader states, 1096-1204. Oxford: Clarendon
Press:  Oxford University Press, 1993.

Maalouf, A.  The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. New York: Shocken Books, 1984.

Maier, Christopher.  Preaching the Crusades:  Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth
    Century.  Cambridge: The University Press, 1994.

Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange Between East and West during the Period of the
Crusades. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1986.

Murray, Alan, ed.  From Clermont to Jerusalem:  The Crusaders and Crusade Society (1095-
1453).  Belgium:  Brepols, 1998.

Nicolle, David C.  Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350. White Plains, N.Y. :
Kraus International Publications, 1988.

Nicholson, Helen.  The Knights Templar:  A New History.  New York:  Stroud, 2001.
______.  Love, War, and the Grail:  Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in Medieval
    Epic and Romance, 1150-1500.  Turnhout, 2001.

Philips, Jonathan.  The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople.  New York:  Viking, 2
2004.
______.  Defenders of the Holy Land:  Relations Between the Latin East and the West, 1119-1187. 
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1996.

Prawer, Joshua. The World of the Crusaders.  London:  Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972.

Queller, Donald and Thomas F. Madden.  The Fourth Crusade:  The Conquest of
Constantinople. Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

Regan, Geoffrey.  Lionhearts:  Saladin, Richard I, and the Era of the Third Crusade.  New York:
    Walker and Co., 1998.

Riley-Smith, Jonathan.  The Crusades:  A Short History.  London:  Athone, 1987.
______.  What Were the Crusades?  New York:  Macmallian Books, 1992.

Schein, Sylvia.  Fideles Crucis : the Papacy, the West, and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274.  
Oxford:  Clarendon, 1991.

Smail, R. C. Crusading Warfare, 1097-1193.  Cambridge:  The University Press, 1956.

Strayer, Joseph.  The Albigensian Crusades.  New York:  The Dial Press, 1971.

Tyerman, Christopher.  England and the Crusades.  Chicago:  The University Press, 1988.
______.  Fighting for Christendom:  Holy War and the Crusades.  Oxford:  The
    University Press, 2004.
______.  The Invention of the Crusades.  Toronto:  University Press, 1998.