Resource list: Component 1A – The age of the crusades, c1071–1204

Key texts for classroom and individual study

• Asbridge T, The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land, Simon and Schuster Ltd, 2012
• Barber M, The Two Cities: Medieval Europe 1050–1320, Routledge, 2004
• Konstam A, The Historical Atlas of the Crusades, Thalamus Publishing, 2002
• Madden T, A Concise History of the Crusades, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999
• Phillips J, Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades, Vintage, 2010
• Riley M and Byrom J, The Crusades, Hodder Education, 2013

Useful books for students

• Asbridge T, The First Crusade: A New History, Free Press, 2005
• Cameron A, The Byzantines (The Peoples of Europe), Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• Madden T, Enrico Dandalo and the Rise of Venice, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
• Phillips J, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, Pimlico, 2005
• Phillips J, The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom, Yale University Press, 2007
• Philips J, The Crusades, 1095–1204, Routledge, 2014
• Richard J, The Crusades c1071–c1291, Cambridge Medieval Textbooks, 1999

Reference books

• Angold M, The Fourth Crusade, Routledge, 2003
• Harriss J, Byzantium and The Crusades, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
• Hamilton B, The Leper King and his Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, Cambridge University Press, 2005
• Ellenblum R, Crusader Castles and Modern Histories, Cambridge University Press, 2009
• France J, Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade, Cambridge University Press, 1996
• Frankopan P, The First Crusade: The Call from the East, Vintage, 2013
• Hillenbrand C, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives, Edinburgh University Press, 1999
• Jotischky A, Crusading and the Crusader States, Routledge, 2004
• Maalouf (ed.), The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Saqi Books, 1984
• Phillips J, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, Pimlico, 2005
• Phillips J, The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom, Yale University Press, 2007
• Riley-Smith J (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, Oxford Paperbacks, 2001
• Runicman S, A History of the Crusades: Volume 1 – The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Penguin, 1991
• Runciman S, A History of the Crusades: Volume 2 – The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100–1187, Penguin, 1990
• Runciman S, A History of the Crusades: Volume 3 – The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades, Penguin, 1990
• Smail R, Crusading Warfare, 1097–1193, Cambridge University Press, 1994
• Tyerman C, God’s War: A New History of the Crusades, Penguin, 2007
• Queller D, Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999

Biographies and first hand accounts

• Anna Comnena, The Alexiad, Penguin Classics, 2009
• Fulcher of Chartres, A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095–1127, W.W. Norton and Company, 1972
• Gesta Francorum, The Deeds of the Franks and Other Pilgrims to Jerusalem, OUP, 1967
• Joinville and Villehardouin, Chronicles of the Crusades, Penguin Classics, 2008
• William of Tyre, The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in Translation, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998

Visual sources and websites

• The Historical Association
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• ORB: The online reference book for medieval studies
• Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook
• Radio 4 The long view
• Radio 4 In our time
• Crusades DVDs – Terry Jones – The History Channel
• The Crescent and the Cross DVDs – The History Channel