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: Articles: Approaches to the study of migration during the crusades, Piers D. Mitchell and Andrew R. Millard; The history and architectural design of Castellum Regis and some other finds in the village of Mi'ilya, Rabei G. Khamisy; Usama ibn Munqidh and Crusader law in the 12th century, Adam M. Bishop; Les difficultes de l'epigraphie franque de Terre sainte au XIIe et XIIIe siecles, Pierre-Vincent Claverie; The True Cross in the armies of Georgia and the Frankish East, Mamuka Tsurtsumia; Templars and Hospitallers in the cities of the West and Latin East (12th to 13th centuries), Damien Carraz; Gambling and gaming in the Holy Land: chess, dice and other games in the sources of the crusades, Elizabeth Lapina; Food and the Military Orders: attitudes of the Hospital and the Temple between the 12th and 14th centuries, Judith Bronstein; An academic call to arms in 1252: John of Garland's crusading epic De triumphis Ecclesiae, Martin Hall; Preaching crusade in 15th-century England: instructions for the administration of the anti-Hussite crusade of 1429 in the diocese of Canterbury, Robert Swanson; The kingdom of Cyprus and Muslim-Christian diplomacy in the age of Mehmed the Conqueror, Alexander Beihammer; Crusading traditions and chivalric ideals: the mentality of the Teutonic Order in Livonia at the beginning of the 16th century, Juhan Kreem. Reviews: Ane L. Bysted, Carsten Selch Jensen, Kurt Villads Jensen and John H. Lind, Jerusalem in the North: Denmark and the Baltic Crusades, 1100-1522, trans. Sarah and Frederick Pedersen, Jonathan Riley-Smith; The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin. A History of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, 1190-1331, trans. Mary Fischer, Kurt Villads Jensen; The Chanson d'Antioche. An Old French Account of the First Crusade, trans. Susan B. Edgington and Carol Sweetenham, David Trotter; Documents Concerning Cyprus from the Hospital's Rhodian Archives: 1409-1459, ed. Karl Borchardt, Anthony Luttrell and Ekhard Schoffler, Simon D. Phillips; La Fin de l'ordre du Temple, ed. Marie-Anna Chevalier, Francois-Olivier Touati; Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis, trans. Peter Lock, Mike Carr; Joseph O'Callaghan, The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait, Damian J. Smith; Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity, ed. Nicholas Paul and Suzanne Yeager, William Chester Jordan; Claire Taylor, Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in Medieval Quercy, Jessalyn Bird. Short Notices: Languages of Love and Hate: Conflict, Communication, and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean, ed. Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson; Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of John Pryor, ed. Ruthy Gertwagen and Elizabeth Jeffreys. Bulletin No 33 of the SSCLE.