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Resource list: Component 1A – The age of the crusades, c1071–1204

Key texts for classroom and individual study

  • Asbridge T, The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land, Simon and Schuster Ltd, 2012
  • Barber M, The Two Cities: Medieval Europe 1050–1320, Routledge, 2004
  • Konstam A, The Historical Atlas of the Crusades, Thalamus Publishing, 2002
  • Madden T, A Concise History of the Crusades, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999
  • Phillips J, Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades, Vintage, 2010
  • Riley M and Byrom J, The Crusades, Hodder Education, 2013

Useful books for students

  • Asbridge T, The First Crusade: A New History, Free Press, 2005
  • Cameron A, The Byzantines (The Peoples of Europe), Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
  • Madden T, Enrico Dandalo and the Rise of Venice, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
  • Phillips J, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, Pimlico, 2005
  • Phillips J, The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom, Yale University Press, 2007
  • Philips J, The Crusades, 1095–1204, Routledge, 2014
  • Richard J, The Crusades c1071–c1291, Cambridge Medieval Textbooks, 1999

Reference books

  • Angold M, The Fourth Crusade, Routledge, 2003
  • Harriss J, Byzantium and The Crusades, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
  • Hamilton B, The Leper King and his Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, Cambridge University Press, 2005
  • Ellenblum R, Crusader Castles and Modern Histories, Cambridge University Press, 2009
  • France J, Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade, Cambridge University Press, 1996
  • Frankopan P, The First Crusade: The Call from the East, Vintage, 2013
  • Hillenbrand C, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives, Edinburgh University Press, 1999
  • Jotischky A, Crusading and the Crusader States, Routledge, 2004
  • Maalouf (ed.), The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Saqi Books, 1984
  • Phillips J, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, Pimlico, 2005
  • Phillips J, The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom, Yale University Press, 2007
  • Riley-Smith J (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, Oxford Paperbacks, 2001
  • Runicman S, A History of the Crusades: Volume 1 – The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Penguin, 1991
  • Runciman S, A History of the Crusades: Volume 2 – The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100–1187, Penguin, 1990
  • Runciman S, A History of the Crusades: Volume 3 – The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades, Penguin, 1990
  • Smail R, Crusading Warfare, 1097–1193, Cambridge University Press, 1994
  • Tyerman C, God’s War: A New History of the Crusades, Penguin, 2007
  • Queller D, Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999

Biographies and first hand accounts

  • Anna Comnena, The Alexiad, Penguin Classics, 2009
  • Fulcher of Chartres, A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095–1127, W.W. Norton and Company, 1972
  • Gesta Francorum, The Deeds of the Franks and Other Pilgrims to Jerusalem, OUP, 1967
  • Joinville and Villehardouin, Chronicles of the Crusades, Penguin Classics, 2008
  • William of Tyre, The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in Translation, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998

Visual sources and websites

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