This is a collection in modern English of some of the key texts describing Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem in October 1187 and the third Crusade which was Christendom's response. The greater part of t
Edbury (medieval history, Cardiff U., Wales) presents 38 papers from a September 2009 conference on the history of European military orders of the Middle Ages held under the joint auspices of the Card
This collection of thirty-four essays by leading researchers in Medieval History focuses on the history of the Latin East and its role in the context of Mediterranean trade and Near Eastern political