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(Duplicate entry) This book is a translation of the _Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi_, a contemporary and near-contemporary account of the Third Crusade. It includes an introduction setting out the context of the original... more
The consensus on Pope Honorius III (1216–27) is that he was a conciliatory politician who lacked the harder edge possessed by his immediate predecessor and successor. Yet, using overlooked evidence regarding the role of Honorius in... more
This essay explores the extent to which the Templars and Hospitallers were responsible for the result of the Third Crusade
This article presents the first forensic source criticism of the papal encyclical that launched the Third Crusade, Audita tremendi (1187/1188); it makes four main arguments. First, its core empirical contribution is to demonstrate textual... more
Book review of Thomas Asbridge's Richard I: The Crusader King, and W.B Bartlett's Richard the Lionheart: The Crusader King of England
Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. The book argues that... more
For over four decades, comic book writers and filmmakers have found creative ways to torture Marvel Comics’ Wolverine. One method that has evolved since Frank Miller tackled the character in 1982 is filling his body with arrows. The... more
This sigillographic (sphragistic) study will review the historic and archaeological two-knight seals of the Templars, and the investigation of a curious and probably unique seal die or matrix. Our accurately molded (though slightly... more
Highly Commended in the British Records Association Janette Harley Prize 2018. The pontificate of Honorius III (1216–27) ranks among the most important papal reigns of the thirteenth century: the pope organised two large-scale crusades... more
Pre-publication proof. The final version is published in the book Acre and Its Falls: Studies in the History of a Crusader City, ed. John France (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
(Duplicate entry) Recent years have seen increasing research into the military orders’ spirituality. The military orders encouraged devotion to martyr-saints. David Woods has noted that that the Templars may have translated relics of... more
The Prophecies de Merlin is an Old French prose work written in the final third of the thirteenth century, and combines factual, ‘prophetic’ material relating to recent history with fictional material relating to Arthurian legend.... more
Throughout history, the Balkans have been a meeting place for numerous peoples and cultures. This area was the borderline between the two great spheres of civilization: the Latin West and the Orthodox East. The ethnic image of the Balkan... more
In autumn 1187 the pope launched in Christendom an appeal for the liberation of the Holy Land, following the conquest of Jerusalem by Salah al-Din. In response, the main European monarchs, accompanied by their own people, waged by land... more
The Third Crusade (1187–1192) is renowned as a conflict between King Richard I of England and the Muslim Sultan Saladin—a reductionist perspective that reflects an enduring fascination with these protagonists both inside and outside... more
Only recently, scholars have turned their attention to the logistic problems of the crusading expeditions during their passages through Central and Southeastern Europe. The logistics of Barbarossa’s expedition to the East, is particularly... more
The De Ortu Walwanii is a Latin prose romance, surviving in a single early fourteenth century manuscript, BM Cotton MS. Faustina B VI. Scholars agree that it is by the same author as the Historia Meriadoci which is preserved in the same... more
The Fifth Crusade represented a cardinal event in early thirteenth-century history, occurring during what was probably the most intensive period of crusading in both Europe and the Holy Land. Following the controversial outcome of the... more
In his History of the Crusades (1952), Runciman claimed that Conrad of Montferrat arrived in Tyre in 1187 after involvement in ‘a murder’ in Constantinople – actually his defeat in battle of Alexios Vranas. Runciman’s use of sources is... more
https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-miraculous-and-the-writing-of-crusade-narrative.html The medieval Latin Christian narratives of the crusades are replete with references to miracles, visions and signs. Mysterious white-clad knights lead... more
In late 1187, Pope Gregory VIII called upon Christendom to recover the Holy Land from Saladin. From across Europe, Christians took the cross and headed towards West Asia, including the kings of England and France, and the Emperor... more
Around the middle of the twelfth century, members of the Christ Church community in Canterbury began to look to Jerusalem, rather than Rome, as an aspirational model. Part of the broader spiritual changes across Europe following the First... more
This article explores the Anglo-Norman military intervention during the Third Crusade on the Portuguese coasts, by analysing the narratives of Ralph of Diceto and the Gesta regis Ricardi. It then examines the motives that produced the... more
In his History of the Crusades (1952), Runciman claimed that Conrad of Montferrat arrived in Tyre in 1187 after involvement in ‘a murder’ in Constantinople – actually his defeat in battle of Alexios Vranas. Runciman’s use of sources is... more
A book review of James Naus, Constructing Kingship: The Capetian Monarchs of France and the Early Crusades, Manchester University Press, 2016.
Resumo: Este artigo analisa as imagens relativas à participação de Frederico I Barbarossa na terceira cruzada e contidas no Liber ad Honorem Augusti, documento escrito por Petrus de Ebulo para homenagear Henrique VI no final do século... more
""Resumo: Este artigo analisa as imagens relativas à participação de Frederico I Barbarossa na terceira cruzada e contidas no Liber ad Honorem Augusti, documento escrito por Petrus de Ebulo para homenagear Henrique VI no final do século... more
This is a volume of essays that utilise a variety of source material and a range of approaches and methodologies, some that seek to advance debate in core areas, and others that might well open new vistas for future research. Much like... more
The Iberian wars between Christians and Muslims are a historical topos that has usually been described controversially through the Spanish term ‘Reconquista’, which in its own has been focused on the singularity of the Iberian... more
It's often quoted that more people died of disease than of wounds in pre-modern conflicts. The crusader siege of Acre, in the Third Crusade (1189–91), brought to a conclusion by Richard the Lionheart, saw monumentally high levels of... more
In April 1189 eleven ships left Bremen to set out for the Holy Land with the third Crusade. During the voyage they shipped along the coast of Western Europe, visited two famous places of pilgrimage, Oviedo and Compostela; then, allying... more