The Crusades and their Sources

John France and William G. Zajac, University of Wales, Swansea, UK Jonathan Riley-Smith, Malcolm Barber, Susan B. Edgington, John France, Robert Irwin, Gerard Dedeyan, Benjamin Z. Kedar, Anthony Luttrell, Hans Eberhard Mayer, Peter W. Edbury, Jean Richard, Colin Morris, Alan V. Murray, Jaroslav Folda, Norman Housley.

Contents: Preface; Bibliography of books and articles by Bernard Hamilton 1961-1997; Raymond IV of St Gilles, Achard of Arles and the conquest of Lebanon, Jonathan Riley-Smith; Frontier warfare in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: the campaign of Jacob’s Ford 1178-79, Malcolm Barber; Albert of Aachen and the Chansons de Geste, Susan B. Edgington; The Anonymous Gesta Francorum and the Historia Francorum qui ceperunt Iherusalem of Raymond of Aguilers and the Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere of Peter Tudebode: an analysis of the textual relationship between primary sources for the First Crusade, John France; Usamah ibn Munqidh: an Arab-Syrian gentleman at the time of the Crusades reconsidered, Robert Irwin; Les colophons de manuscrits arméniens comme sources pour l’histoire des Croisades, Gerard Dédéyan; TheTractatus de locis et statu sancte terre ierosolimitane, Benjamin Z. Kedar; The Hospitallers’ early written records, Anthony Luttrell; Ehe und Besitz im Jerusalem der Kreuzfahrer, Hans Eberhard Mayer; The Livre des Assises by John of Jaffa: the development and transmission of the text, Peter W. Edbury; Les évêques de Chypre et la Chambre apostolique: un arrêt de compte de 1369, Jean Richard; Picturing the crusades: the uses of visual propaganda, c.1095-1250, Colin Morris; ’Mighty against the enemies of Christ’; the relic of the True Cross and the armies of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Alan V. Murray; The south transept façade of the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem: an aspect of ’Rebuilding Zion’, Jaroslav Folda; A necessary evil? Erasmus, the Crusade, and war against the Turks, Norman Housley; Index.