Bibliography
for the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

General works

The Crusades and the Kingdom

• Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The Crusades: A History. 3rd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
• Tyerman, Christopher. God's War: A New History of the Crusades. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
• Asbridge, Thomas. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land. New York: Ecco, 2010.
• Runciman, Steven. A History of the Crusades. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951–1954. The dominant mid-twentieth-century narrative; still widely read, though superseded in particulars.

Chapter I — The First Crusade

1095–1099

• Asbridge, Thomas. The First Crusade: A New History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• France, John. Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading. London: Athlone, 1986.
• Madden, Thomas F. The Concise History of the Crusades. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Chapters II–III — Founding kings and high period

1100–1174

• Mayer, Hans Eberhard. The Crusades. Trans. John Gillingham. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Murray, Alan V. The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History, 1099–1125. Oxford: Linacre College, 2000.
• Edbury, Peter W., and John Gordon Rowe. William of Tyre: Historian of the Latin East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• Hamilton, Bernard. The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Folda, Jaroslav. The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098–1187. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Chapters IV–V — The Leper King, Hattin, and the fall of Jerusalem

1174–1187

• Phillips, Jonathan. The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin. London: Bodley Head, 2019.
• Ehrenkreutz, Andrew S. Saladin. Albany: SUNY Press, 1972.
• Möhring, Hannes. Saladin: The Sultan and His Times, 1138–1193. Trans. David S. Bachrach. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
• Kedar, Benjamin Z. "The Battle of Hattin Revisited." In The Horns of Hattin, ed. B.Z. Kedar, 190–207. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1992.
• Lyons, Malcolm Cameron, and D.E.P. Jackson. Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Chapters VI–VII — Third Crusade and the second kingdom

1189–1244

• Gillingham, John. Richard I. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
• Tyerman, Christopher. England and the Crusades, 1095–1588. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
• Phillips, Jonathan. The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. London: Jonathan Cape, 2004.
• Abulafia, David. Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor. London: Allen Lane, 1988.
• Powell, James M. Anatomy of a Crusade: 1213–1221. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.

Chapter VIII — The fall of Acre

1244–1291

• Crowley, Roger. The Accursed Tower: The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land. London: Faber & Faber, 2019.
• Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The Knights of St John in Jerusalem and Cyprus, c. 1050–1310. London: Macmillan, 1967.
• Northrup, Linda S. From Slave to Sultan: The Career of Al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1998.

Chapter IX — Castles and military orders

The Hospitallers, Templars, and Teutonic Knights

• Kennedy, Hugh. Crusader Castles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Ellenblum, Ronnie. Crusader Castles and Modern Histories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Ellenblum, Ronnie. Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. The principal monograph on the rural Frankish settlement.
• Barber, Malcolm. The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Nicholson, Helen. The Knights Hospitaller. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2001.
• Sterns, Indrikis. "The Teutonic Knights in the Crusader States." In A History of the Crusades, ed. Kenneth M. Setton, vol. 5, 315–378. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

Chapter X — After Jerusalem

The Cypriot exile and the long memory

• Edbury, Peter W. The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191–1374. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Coureas, Nicholas. The Latin Church in Cyprus, 1195–1312. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997.
• Coureas, Nicholas. The Latin Church in Cyprus, 1313–1378. Nicosia: Cyprus Research Centre, 2010.
• Catlos, Brian A., and Sharon Kinoshita, eds. Can We Talk Mediterranean? Conversations on an Emerging Field in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Primary sources

Crusader and Muslim voices

• William of Tyre. A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea. Trans. Emily Atwater Babcock and A.C. Krey. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943.
• Usama ibn Munqidh. The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades. Trans. Paul M. Cobb. London: Penguin Classics, 2008.
• Ibn al-Athir. The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kāmil fī'l-ta'rīkh. Trans. D.S. Richards. 3 vols. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006–2008.
• Joinville and Villehardouin. Chronicles of the Crusades. Trans. Caroline Smith. London: Penguin Classics, 2008.
• Anonymous. Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum (The Deeds of the Franks). Trans. Rosalind Hill. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. The principal contemporary First Crusade account.
• Fulcher of Chartres. A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095–1127. Trans. Frances Rita Ryan. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1969.