Crusades

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.

• Contents: A note to our readers; Articles: The relationship between the Gesta Francorum and Peter Tudebode's Historia de Hierosolymitano Itinere: the evidence of a hitherto unexamined manuscript, (St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 3), Marcus Bull; The First Crusade and the Kingdom of Jerusalem in an unpublished Hebrew dirge, Avraham Gross and Avraham Fraenkel; Alexios, Bohemond, and Byzantium's Euphrates frontier: a tale of two Cretans, John H. Pryor and Michael J. Jeffreys; Conquest, conversion, and heathen customs in Henry of Livonia's Chronicon Livoniae and the Livlandische Reimchronik, Shami Ghosh; Wilbrand of Oldenburg's journey to Syria, Lesser Armenia, Cyprus, and the Holy Land (1211-1212): a new edition, Denys Pringle; Frederick II's Arabic inscription from Jaffa, 1229, Moshe Sharon with Ami Schraeger; Two Crusaders out of luck, Hans Eberhard Mayer; Unpublished notarial acts on Tedisio Doria's voyage to Cyprus and Lesser Armenia, 1294-1295, Antonio Musarra; Who's in charge here? The administration of the Church of Nicosia, 1299-1319, Chris Schabel; Pope Pius II and crusading, Norman Housley. Reviews: Le comte de Tripoli: etat multiculturel et multiconfessionnel (1102-1289), ed. Gerard Dedeyan and Karam Rizk, with preface by Jean Richard (Kevin James Lewis); Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier: A Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, ed. Marek Tamm, Linda Kaljundi, and Carsten Selch Jensen (Mary Fischer); Nicholas Coureas, The Latin Church in Cyprus, 1313-1378 (Andrew Jotischky); Fortresses of the Intellect: Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary, ed. Omar Ali-de-Unzaga (Alex Mallett); Matthew Gabriele, An Empire of Memory: The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the First Crusade (Marcus Bull); Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204, ed. Judith Herrin and Guillaume Saint-Guillain (Paul Stephenson); Jacques de Vitry, Histoire orientale. Historia orientalis, ed. and trans. (into modern French) Jean Donnadieu (Francois-Olivier Touati);The Proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles, 2 vols. Volume 1: The Latin Text; Volume 2: Translation, ed. and trans. Helen J. Nicholson (Jonathan Riley-Smith); Jurgen Sarnowsky, Die Templer (Jochen Burgtorf); Miriam Rita Tessera, Orientalis ecclesia. Papato, Chiesa e regno latino di Gerusalemme (1099-1187) (G.A. Loud); Susanna A. Throop, Crusading as an Act of Vengeance, 1095-1216 (C. Matthew Phillips); Christopher Tyerman, The Debate on the Crusades (Christoph T. Maier); James Waterson, The Ismaili Assassins - A History of Medieval Murder (James D. Ryan); John Zimmer, Werner Meyer, and Letizia Boscardin, Krak des Chevaliers in Syrien. Archaologie und Bauforschung 2003 bis 2007 (Mathias Piana); Short Notices; Julian Chrysostomides, Byzamtium and Venice, 1204-1453, ed. Michael Heslop and Charalmbos Dendrinos; Crusades - Medieval Worlds in Conflict, ed. Thomas F. Madden, James L. Naus, and Vincent Ryan; On the Margins of Crusading. The Military Orders, the Papacy and the Christian World, ed. Helen J. Nicholson; La Papaute et les croisades / The Papacy and the Crusades. Actes du VIIe Congres de la Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East / Proceedings of the VIIth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, ed. Michel Balard; Jurgen Sarnowsky, On the Military Orders in Medieval Europe. Structures and Perceptions; Bulletin No. 32 of the SSCLE.