Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) drawing together scholars working on war, theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. There is a great need for more historical sources of the Crusades - narrative.

Contents: Articles: The 'schism' of 1054 and the First Crusade, Jonathan Harris; The Gesta Francorum Iherusalem expugnantium of 'Bartolf of Nangis', Susan B. Edgington; The Jerusalem conquest of 492/1099 in the medieval Arabic historiography of the Crusades: from regional plurality to Islamic narrative, Konrad Hirschler; Geoffrey, prior of the Templum Domini, On the Seven Books of Josephus, Julian Yolles; Irish involvement in the First and Second Crusades? A reconsideration of the eleventh- and twelfth-century evidence, Denis Casey; The German Crusade of 1197-1198, Graham A. Loud; Burchard of Mount Sion's Descriptio Terrae Sanctae: a newly discovered extended version, Jonathan Rubin; A templar's belt: the oral and sartorial transmission of memory and myth in the Order of the Temple, Kevin James Lewis; Pergamene messinesi due-trecentesche relative all'Oriente latino, Bruno Figliuolo; Humbert of Viennois and the Crusade of Smyrna: a reconsideration, Mike Carr. Reviews; Short notices; Bulletin no. 34 of the SSCLE.