Directory of The Crusades Resources

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Sites devoted to the Holy Wars fought by Christians during the medieval period. Primarily but not exclusively the wars fought between the Latin West and the Muslim East from the 11th to 14th centuries.

Subcategories

• Contemporary Islam
• Primary Sources
• Religious Military Orders

Resources in This Category

• A History of the Crusades

  http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/HistCrusades/
  A digital facsimile of six volumes published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries covering the history of the period and its impact on Europe and the Near East.

• Cathar Crusades: What was the Albigensian Crusade

  http://www.cathar.info/1206_crusade.htm
  Description of and background of the thirteenth century war.

• Crusade

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade
  From Wikipedia, the open-content encyclopedia. Covers historical background and context, as well as the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eight, and Ninth Crusades, as well as the Albigensian Crusade, Children's Crusade, and crusades in the Baltic and Central Europe.

• Crusades

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04543c.htm
  Presents the Catholic perspective on the Crusades.

• Crusades: Truth and Black Legend

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHISTORY/ZCRUSADE.HTM
  Italian writer Vittorio Messori defends the crusaders from charges levelled at them during the Enlightenment.

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook - The Crusades

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1k.asp
  A collection of contemporary accounts of the crusades.

• Literature of the Crusades

  http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~bstevens/crusadeslit.htm
  A categorized listing of links to translations of original source material on the Crusades.

• The Children's Crusade

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1212pueri.asp
  Translated document.

• The Crusades

  http://historymedren.about.com/od/crusades/
  Links for research.

• The Crusades

  http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/sheldon/crusades.html
  The full text of History of the Christian Church by Henry C. Sheldon, 1895.

• The Crusades

  http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/history/the-crusades.html
  A history and apologetic for the Crusades, from the Catholic Educator's resource Center.

• The Crusades in the Levant (1097-1291)

  http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/crusade2.htm
  Lengthy overview of the whole crusade period.

• The East and the West in the Middle Ages: Crusades and Crusaders

  http://www.crusades-medieval.blogspot.com/
  Weblog containing a chronology of events and articles.

• The Holy Land of the Crusaders

  http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/crus/CRUmain.html
  Pictures and information about churches and other buildings built by the crusaders.

• The Peaceful Liberation of the Holy Places in the XIV Century

  http://www.christusrex.org/www2/liberation/
  An online book on how the Frankish clergy returned to the Holy Places in the Fourteenth Century for the purpose of maintaining the Sacred Sites and celebrating the Roman Liturgy. A substantial part of the book covers the period of the Crusades.

• The Real History Of The Crusades

  http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=4461
  A historian describes the Crusades in context of Christian Europe's desperate defense against incessant Islamic wars of conquest.

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