Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. 

    Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin.

    List of figures and tables

    Articles

    1. Thomas W. Smith, "The First Crusade Letter written at Laodicea in 1099: Two Previously Unpublished Versions from Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 23390 and 28195"
    2. Elon Harvey, "Saladin consoles Baldwin IV over the Death of his Father"
    3. Jeffrey A. Blakely and Yaakov Huster, "The Wadi el-Hesi Region in 1256/7: An Interpretation of John of Ibelin’s Contract with the Hospital of Saint John"
    4. Valentin L. Portnykh, "The Short Version of Humbert of Romans’ Treatise on the Preaching of the Holy Cross: Edition of the Latin Text"
    5. Nicholas Coureas, "The Admirals of Lusignan Cyprus."
    6. Marwan Nader, "Courts of Non-Noble Jurisdiction and Laws of Roman Provenance in Fourteenth-Century Famagusta"
    7. Constantinos Georgiou, "Ordinavi armatam sancte unionis: Clement VI’s Sermon on the Dauphin Humbert II of Viennois’ Leadership of the Christian Armada against the Turks, 1345"
    8. Michael Heslop, "The Countryside of Rhodes and its Defences under the Hospitallers, 1306-1423: Evidence from Unpublished Documents and the Late Medieval Texts and Maps of Cristoforo Buondelmonti"
    9. Duncan Hardy, "An Alsatian Nobleman’s Account of the Second Crusade against the Hussites in 1421: New Edition, Translation, and Interpretation"

    Reviews

    Writing the Early Crusades: Text, Transmission and Memory, ed. Marcus Bull and Damien Kempf (Susan B. Edgington)

    Ane L. Bysted, The Crusade Indulgence: Spiritual Rewards and the Theology of the Crusades, c. 1095-1216 (Jessalynn Pitcher Bird)

    Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay, The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period. Ibn ‘Asakir of Damascus (1105-1176) and His Age, with an Edition and Translation of Ibn ‘Asakir’s The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad (Carole Hillenbrand)

    Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Crusading in Frankish Greece. A Study of Byzantine-Western Relations and Attitudes, 1204-1282 (Catherine Holmes)

    Clara Maillard, Les papes et le Maghreb aux XIIIème et XIVème siècles. Étude des lettres pontificales de 1199 à 1419 (Benjamin Weber)

    Joseph O’Callaghan, The Last Crusade in the West. Castile and the Conquest of Granada (Benjamin Weber)

    Philippe Buc, Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror: Christianity, Violence, and the West, ca. 70 c.e. to the Iraq War (Nicholas Morton)

    Short Notices

    James M. Powell, The Papacy, Frederick II and Communal Devotion in Medieval Italy, ed. Edward Peters

    John France, Warfare, Crusade and Conquest in the Middle Ages

    Peter W. Edbury, Law and History in the Latin East

    The Eastern Mediterranean Frontier of Latin Christendom, ed. Jace Stuckey

    Biography

    Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hebrew University, Israel; Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Jonathan Riley-Smith, University of Cambridge, UK with Nikolaos G. Chrissis, University of Athens, Greece.