Crusades


The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
The First Crusade: A New History
God's War: A New History of the Crusades
A History of the Crusades, Volume 1: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
A History of the Crusades, Vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics)
God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
A History of the Crusades, Vol. III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades
The New Concise History of the Crusades
The Crusades: A Short History
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
Richard Baxter
The name of this city much helpeth Jew and Gentile to see the state of peace, for this is called Jerusalem, and that in Canaan hath Christ destroyed: this name should clearly have taught bot h the Hebrews not to look and pray daily for to return to Canaan, and pseduo-catholics not to fight for special holiness there (658-9).
Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

Thomas Asbridge
Not surprisingly, the crusaders developed an intense hatred of Greek fire. One unfortunate Turkish emir thus paid a heavy price when wounded in a skirmish beside a Frankish siege tower. He had been carrying a container of Greek fire, hoping to destroy the engine, but now a Latin knight ‘stretched him out on the ground, emptying the contents of the phial on his private parts, so that his genitals were burned’.
Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

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