Crusades

S.J. Allen is a medieval historian and an associate lecturer at The Open University.Emilie Amt is an emeritus professor of history at Hood College.

Allen and Amt have dusted off the Crusades from the relics shelf of European history and have brought the conflict into a new age of scholarship, making use of a multifaceted, multicultural perspective of great value in our interconnected world where an understanding of cultural context is so vital. - Comitatus The book's beauty lies in its documentation of relevant and important primary sources from both Christian as well as Muslim sources. Moreover, after documenting the sources it neither judges nor analyses; rather, at the end of almost each document it encourages readers to engage more with it and poses some important questions, such as why, what, how, and when. - Journal of Human and Society

• Acknowledgments Preface to the Second Edition Introduction I. Background and Origins 1. The Pilgrimage of Etheria2. Augustine of Hippo on the Just War3. The Qur'an4. al-Baladhuri on Early Muslim Conquests5. The Pact of Omar6. Early Indulgences7. Ibnu Hayyan on Warfare in Spain8. The Song of Roland9. Declaration of the Truce of God10. Matthew of Edessa on the Seljuk Conquests11. Gregory VII's Call for Assistance to the Greeks II. The First Crusade 12. Urban II's Call for a Crusade13. Albert of Aachen on the Peasants' Crusade14. Solomon bar Samson on the Massacres of Jews15. Anna Comnena's Alexiad16. The Deeds of the Franks17. Letter of Stephen of Blois18. Anselm of Ribemont on Events at Antioch19. Ralph of Caen on Divisions among the Crusaders20. Raymond of Aguilers on the Fall of Jerusalem21. Letter of Pope Paschal on the Capture of Jerusalem22 'Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami's The Book of the Jihad23. Abu l-Muzaffar al-Abiwardi on the Fall of Jerusalem III. The Crusader States 24. William of Tyre's History25. Fulcher of Chartres's History26. Venetian Treaty27. Laws of the Kingdom of Jerusalem28. The Travels of Saewulf29. John of Würzburg's Pilgrim Guide30. The Travels of Ibn Jubayr31. Memoirs of Usamah Ibn Munqidh32. The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela IV. The Second and Third Crusades 33. Ibn al-Qalanisi on Zengi and Nur ad-Din34. Ibn al-Athir on the Fall of Edessa35. Letter of Bernard of Clairvaux36. Bernard of Clairvaux: In Praise of the New Knighthood37. The Rule of the Templars 38. Odo of Deuil: The Journey of Louis VII to the East39. John Kinnamos: The Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus40. Analyses of the Second Crusade41. Baha ad-Din's Life of Saladin42. Imad ad-Din on the Battle of Hattin43. Roger of Wendover on the Fall of Jerusalem44. Letters on the Fall of Jerusalem45. Taxation and Regulations for the Third Crusade46. Islamic Accounts of the Treatment of Prisoners 47. Accounts of the Third Crusade V. Setting Out and Returning Home 48. Gerald of Wales on Preaching a Crusade49. Privileges and Indulgences50. Personal Arrangements51. Liturgy for Pilgrims and Crusaders52. Financial Accounts53. Travel Information54. Accounts of Crusader Homecomings 55. Thomas of Froidmont, The Adventures of Margaret of Beverly, a Woman Crusader 56. Crusading Songs VI. The Age of Innocent III 57. Letters of Innocent III58. Accounts of the Fourth Crusade59. Documents on the Sack of Constantinople60. Bernard of Gui's Manual for Inquisitors61. William of Tudela's Song of the Cathar Wars62. Accounts of the Children's Crusade63. Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council64. Oliver of Paderborn on the Fifth Crusade VII. Crusades of the Holy Roman Empire 65. Charter to German Settlers66. Poem Describing Cistercian Settlement67. Proclamations of Northern European Crusades68. Helmold's Chronicle of the Slavs69. The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia70. The Rule of the Teutonic Knights71. Nikolaus von Jeroschin on the Prussian Crusades72. Philip of Novara on Frederick II's Crusade73. Frederick II on His Taking of Jerusalem and Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi's Recording of the Event74. Responses to Frederick II's Crusade VIII. Conflict and Coexistence in Spain 75. Chronicle of the Cid76. The Conquest of Lisbon77. Alfonso VIII's Report on Las Navas de Tolosa78. Muslim-Christian Treaty79. Moorish Laws80. Christian Laws81. Constitutions of the Order of Merced82. Expulsion of the Jews from Spain83. Abu Abdilla Mohammed on the Expulsion of the Muslims IX. Crusades at the Crossroads 84. Joinville's Life of St. Louis85. Matthew Paris on the Shepherds' Crusade86. Ibn Al-Athir on the Mongol Invasion87. Ibn 'Abd al-Zahir's Biography of Baybars88. Ludolph von Suchem on the Fall of Acre and Its Aftermath89. Humbert of Romans on Criticisms of Crusading90. Ramon Lull's Plan to Convert the Muslims91. Order for the Arrest of the Templars and Papal Bull Suppressing the Templars92. John Mandeville on Prester John93. Letters between Pope Innocent IV and Guyuk Khan94. Johann Schiltberger on the Nicopolis Crusade95. Kritovoulos on the Fall of Constantinople96. Pius II's Commentaries97. Erasmus On the War against the Turks X. Modern Perceptions of the Crusades 98. David Hume on the Crusades 99. Edward Gibbon's Evaluation of the Crusades 100. William Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Sonnets101. Michaud, History of the Crusades102. William Hillary's Call for a New Crusade103. Sayyid 'Ali Hariri's Book of the Splendid Stories of the Crusades 104. World War I Political Cartoons 105. Sayyid Qutb's Social Justice in Islam and Muhammad Asad's Islam at the Crossroads106. The Hamas Covenant 107. Pope John Paul II's Statements about Past Christian Actions 108. Crusading Rhetoric after 9/11 109. Modern Use of Images of Saladin 110. Umej Bhatia's Analysis of the Crusades and Modern Muslim Memory Sources Index of Topics