This volume brings together a set of contributions by leading crusade historians, in honour of the doyen of the field, Professor Jean Richard. The four sections cover the history and ideology of the crusading movement, the military orders; and the Latin establishments and kingdoms in the Holy Land and in Cyprus during the Middle Ages.

Contents: Introduction; Bibliographie de Monsieur le Professeur Jean Richard; List of Abbreviations; Bella Sacra: Pope Gregory VII and martyrdom, H.E.J. Cowdrey; The fall of Antioch during the First Crusade, John France; "Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink." Water supplies for the fleets of the First Crusade, John H. Pryor; The significance of a 12th-century sculptural group: Le Retour du Croisé, Nurith Kenaan-Kedar and Benjamin Kedar; The Albigensian Crusades: wars like any other?, Malcolm Barber; Civilis ac pia regis Francorum deceptio: Louis IX as crusade preacher, Christoph Maier; Matthew Paris, the lives of Muhammad, and the Dominicans, James Powell; Sur les traces de Buscarello de' Ghisolfi, Michel Balard; Comment reconquérir la Terre sainte et vaincre les Sarrasins?, Jacques Paviot; Explaining defeat: Andrew of Regensburg and the Hussite Crusades, Norman Housley; Militia Nova: Le fondateur de l'ordre du Temple à ses frères: Hugues de Payns et le Sermo Christi militibus, Simonetta Cerrini; Guy of Lusignan, the Hospitallers and the gates of Acre, Jonathan Riley-Smith; Les ordres militaires et la croisade au début du XIVe siècle. Quelques remarques sur les traités de croisade de Jacques de Molay et de Foulques de Villaret, Alain Demurger; A Hospitaller soror at Rhodes, 1347, Anthony Luttrell; Un fragment de la Règle de l'Ordre de l'Épée?, Marie-Adélaïde Nielen; Terra Sancta: Francs et musulmans de Syrie au début du XIIe siècle d'après l'historien Ibn Abi Tayyi', Anne-Marie Eddé; L'archevêque Hugues d'Edesse et son destin posthume, Rudolf Hiestand; Un émir arménien du Hawrân entre la principauté turque de Damas et le royaume latin de Jérusalem (1147), Gérard Dédéyan; Frankish and Muslim siege warfare and the construction of Frankish concentric castles, Ronnie Ellenblum; Three patriarchs at Antioch, 1165-70, Bernard Hamilton; Ein unbekanntes Kreuzfahrersiegel, Hans E. Mayer; William of Tyre and the origin of the Turks: observat

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