Contents
Additional Resources
A-Level Specifications
Exam Style Questions and Mark Scheme
KS3 Recap
Blog Bibliography
Art and Space
Fromherz, Alan James, The Near West: Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age (Edinburgh, 2016).
Georgopoulou, Maria, ‘Orientalism and Crusader Art; Constructing a New Canon’, Medieval Encounters, 5(3), Chicago (1999), 289-321.
Massey, Doreen, ‘Places and their Pasts’, History Workshop Journal, 39 (1995), 182-192.
Coinage and Commerce:
”Sweet Salt’: Sugar Production in Medieval Cyprus’, Jumblocracy at https://www.fergusmurraysculpture.com.
‘How sugar made Medieval Cyprus the commercial center of the Eastern Mediterranean’, Dom Live at https://dom.com.cy/en/live/blog/sweet-island.
‘Cross-Cultural Trade and Cultural Exchange During the Crusades’, The Sultan and the Saint at https://www.sultanandthesaintfilm.com/education/cross-cultural-trade-cultural-exchange-crusades.
‘Coinage of the Crusades: Merging East and West’, The Hunterian at https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/virtualdisplays/coinageofthecrusades.
Journey to Jerusalem:
Andersson, Theodore Murdock; Gade, Kari Ellen (eds.), Morkinskinna the earliest Icelandic chronicle of the Norwegian kings (London, 2000).
Fjalldal, Magnús, ‘Beware of Norwegian Kings: Heimskringla as Propaganda’, Scandinavian studies, Vol. 85.4 (2013), 455-468.
Fulcher of Chartres, Chronicle of the First Crusade, trans. Martha Evelyn McGinty (Pennsylvania, 2017).
Ibn al-Athīr, Ahmad, The chronicle of Ibn al-Athīr for the crusading period from al-Kāmil fīʼl-taʼrīkh, trans. D. S. Richards (Aldershot, 2006).
Jakobsson, Ármann, ‘Image is Everything: The Morkinskinna Account of King Sigurðr of Norway’s Journey to the Holy Land’, Parergon, Vol. 30.1 (2013), 121-140.
Jakobsson, Sverrir, ‘Saracen Sensibilities: Muslims and Otherness in Medieval Saga Literature’, Journal of English and Germanic philology, Vol. 115.2 (2016), 213-238.
Rowe, Elizabeth Ashman, The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (London, 2017).
Military technology:
Asbridge, Thomas, Simon & Schuster UK (eds.), The First Crusades: A New History (Oxford, 2012).
Hillenbrand, Carole, Fitzborn Dearborn Publishers (eds.), The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (Chicago, 1999).
‘Siege Engines during the Crusades’, Medievalists.net at https://www.medievalists.net/2019/10/siege-engines-during-the-crusades.
‘Military Innovations of the Crusades Period’, The Sultan and the Saint at https://www.sultanandthesaintfilm.com/education/military-innovations-crusades-period.
Wilhite, Darren, ‘Weaponry of the Crusades’ (2018) at https://crusadingweapons.wordpress.com/muslimarms.
Religious Co Existence:
Behrens-Abouseif, Doris, ‘Veneto-Saracenic Metalware: A Mamluk Art’, Mamluk Studies Review, 2005, 149-160.
Hoffman, Eva, ‘Christian-Islamic Encounters on 13th Century Ayyubid Metalwork’, The University of Chicago Press Journals, 2004, 129-142.
Jacoby, David, ‘Silk Economics and Cross-Cultural Artistic Interaction Byzantium, the Muslim World and The Christian West’, Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University, 2004, 197-240.