Lista de Referências sobre as Cruzadas (para um estudo sério sobre o assunto)

O grupo de historiadores do grupo Real Crusades History elaborou uma lista de leituras recomendadas sobre as cruzadas. Esta lista é o resultado de um esforço colaborativo entre os fundadores do grupo Real Crusades History e diversos colaboradores, profissionais acadêmicos. A lista criada é ampla e serve como guia para aqueles que desejam mergulhar em estudo sério das cruzadas. Esta lista não é uma lista final no sentido que a ela pode ser atualizada com o tempo. Deus vult!

Nível introdutório: 

• The New Concise History of the Crusades, Thomas Madden

• What were the Crusades? Jonathan Riley-Smith

• God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades, Rodney Stark

• The Crusaders: The Struggle for the Holy Land, Regine Pernoud

• The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge

• The Crusades, third edition, Jonathan Riley-Smith

• God’s War: A New History of the Crusades, Christopher Tyerman

• Seven Myths of the Crusades, ed. Andrew Holt and Alfred Andrea

Tópicos específicos e avançados:  

Fontes primárias: em inglês 

• The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials, (ed. Edward Peters)

• The Deeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalem-Bound Pilgrims: The Earliest Chronicles of the First Crusades, (ed. and trans. Nirmal Dass)

• Chronicles of the Crusades: Eye-witness accounts of the wars between Christianity and Islam, (ed. Elizabeth Hallam)

• Chronicle of the Third Crusade: A Translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, Anonymous (trans. Helen Nicholson)

• The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, Baha al-Din Shaddad (trans. D.S. Richards)

• A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea, Archbishop William of Tyre (A translation of Historia rerum in parties trasmarinis gestarum). Morningside Heights Columbia University Press, 1943

• The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in Translation, Peter W. Edbury (Continuations of William of Tyre, including the Chronicles of Ernoul)

• In Praise of the New Knighthood: a Treatise on the Knights Templar and the Holy Places of
  Jerusalem, Bernard of Clairvaux (trans. Conrad Greenia)

• A Knight’s Own Book of Chivalry, Geoffroi de Charny (trans. Ellspeth Kennedy)

• Joinville and Villehardouin: Chronicles of the Crusades (trans. Caroline Smith)

História islâmica, conquistas, teologia e fontes  

• The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam, Jonathan Riley-Smith

• Arab Historians of the Crusades, Francesco Gabrieli

• Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World, Stephen O’Shea

• The Truth about Muhammad, Robert Spencer

• The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives, Carole Hildebrand

• The Great Islamic Conquests, David Nicolle

• The Great Arab Conquests, Hugh N. Kennedy

• The Crusades through Arab Eyes, Amin Maalouf

• Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination, John V. Tolan

A Primeira Cruzada

• The First Crusade: A New History, Thomas Asbridge

• The First Crusaders 1195-1131, Jonathan Riley-Smith

• Victory in the East: A military history of the First Crusade, John France

• The First Crusade: The Call from the East, Peter Frankopan

• Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade: The Limousin and Gascony c.970 – c.1130, Marcus Bull

A Terceira Cruzada 

• Richard I, John Gillingham

• Richard the Lionheart: The Mighty Crusader, David Miller

• Saladin, Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz

• Hattin 1187: Saladin’s Greatest Victory, David Nicolle

• Downfall of the Crusader Kingdom: The Battle of Hattin and the Loss of Jerusalem, W. B. Bartlett

O Império Romano do Oriente durante as Cruzadas (Estudos Bizantinos) 

• The Alexiad, Anna Comnena (trans. Elizabeth Dawes)

• Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographica of Michael Psellus, trans. E. R. A Sewter

• Strenuitas: The Life and Times of Robert Guiscard and Bohemond of Taranto, Danny Chaplin

• Warfare, State, and Society in the Byzantine World 560-1204, John Haldon

Espanha Islâmica e a Reconquista 

• The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain, Dario Fernandez-Mendoza (ISI Books, 2016)

• Caliphs and Kings, Spain, 796-1031, Roger Collins (Willey Blackwell, 2012)

• Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources, ed. Olivia Remie Constable (University of Pensilvania Press, 2011)

• A History of Medieval Spain, Joseph F. O’Callaghan

As cruzadas nórdicas  

• The Northern Crusades, Eric Christiansen

• The Popes and the Baltic Crusades 1147-1254, Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt

As cruzadas algingenses  

• The Cathars: Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages, Malcolm Barber

• A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom, Mark Pegg*

Pregando as Cruzadas 

• How to Plan a Crusade, Christopher Tyerman

Monasticismo 

• Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Europe in the Middle Ages, C.H. Lawrence

Os Estados Cruzados  

• William of Tyre:Historian of the Latin East, Peter W. Edbury and John Gordon Rowe

• The Chronicle of Ernoul and the Continuations of William of Tyre, M.R. Morgan

• The Crusader States, Malcolm Barber

• Crusading and the Crusader States, Andrew Jotischky

• The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem 1099 to 1291 AD, Claude Reignier Conder

• Feudal Monarchy in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, John L. La Monte

• Kings and Lords in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Hans Eberhard Mayer

• Women in the Crusader States: The Queens of Jerusalem 1100 – 90, Bernard Hamilton in Medieval Women (Studies in Church History, Subsidia I), (ed. Derek Baker)

• The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, Bernard Hamilton

• John of Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Peter Edbury

• The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374, Peter Edbury

Aspectos militares das Cruzadas  

• Western warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300, John France

• Victory in the East: A military history of the First Crusade, John France

• Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics: War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades (Routledge Research in Medieval Studies), Andrew Latham

Cavaleiros e cavalherismo

• The Knight and Chivalry, Richard Barber

–  Knights: The Complete Story of the Age of Chivalry, from Historical Fact to Tales of Romance and Poetry, Andrea Hopkins

• A Knight’s Own Book of Chivalry, Geoffroi de Charny (trans. Ellspeth Kennedy)

• Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight, David Edge and John Miles Paddock

• The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, Ewart Oakeshott

• Records of the Medieval Sword, Ewart Oakeshott

As ordens militares  

• The Templars, Regine Pernoud

• The New Knighthood: A History of the Orders of the Temple, Malcolm Barber

• The Trial of the Templars (2nd.ed.), Malcolm Barber

• The Real History behind the Templars, Sharan Newman

• The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven, James Wasserman

• Dungeon, Fire, and Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades, John J. Robinson

• Knights of Jerusalem: The Crusading Order of Hospitallers 1100 – 1565, David Nicolle

• The Sword and the Green Cross: The Saga of the Knights of Saint Lazarus from the Crusades to the 21st Century, Max J. Ellul*

• Leper Knights: The Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, 1150 – 1544, David Marcombe

• The Teutonic Knights: A Military History, William Urban

• The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291, Nicholas Morton

Mulheres na Idade Média e nas Cruzadas 

• Medieval Women (Studies in Church History, Subsidia I), (ed. Derek Baker)

O mundo das Cruzadas  

• The Crusader World, Adrian Boas

• The Origin of the Idea of the Crusade, Carl Erdmann

• The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714, John France

• Contesting the Crusades, Norman Housley

• Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land, Norman Housley

• Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics: War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades (Routledge Research in Medieval Studies), Andrew Latham

• The Crusades: The Essential Readings (ed. Thomas Madden)

• The Atlas of the Crusades, (ed. Jonathan Riley-Smith)

• Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West, Timothy S. miller and John W. Nesbitt

Arte, arquitetura e artifatos  

• Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East, Adrian J. Boas

• Crusader Art: The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, Jaroslave Folda

• Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer, Denys Pringle

• The Archaeology of Weapons, Ewart Oakeshott

• The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, Ewart Oakeshott

• Records of the Medieval Sword, Ewart Oakeshott