Description
Book SynopsisCrusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history.
Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society''s Bulletin.
Table of Contents1. "Mediterranean Notables and the Politics of Survival in Islamic and Latin Syria: Two Geniza Documents on the Frankish Siege of Tripoli", Brendan Goldman 2. "A New Document concerning the Bishopric of Sebastea", Graham Loud 3. "A Ridge Too Far: The Siege of Saone/Sahyun in 1188 and Contemporary Trebuchet Technology", Michael S. Fulton 4. "‘The Sins of the Sons of Men’: A New Letter of Pope Celestine III concerning the 1195 Crusade of Alarcos", Miguel Gomez & Kyle Lincoln 5. "A Crusader Manuscript from Antioch? Reappraising the Provenance of Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms. Pal. lat. 1963", Philip D. Handyside 6."Otto of Grandson and the Holy Land, Cyprus and Armenia", Alan Forey 7. "A Crusader Lineage from Spain to the Throne of Jerusalem: The Lusignan", Clément de Vasselot-de-Régné 8. "Ending and Starting Crusades at the Council of Basel", Norman Housley 9. "Research Output in Medieval and Crusade Studies 1981-2011: A Bibliometric Survey", Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen 10. Reviews and Short Notices
