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

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