Hist. 433 Week 4

Week 4 The Latin East: Kings, Warriors, and Historians

Mon 6/14 The Fall of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade

secondary: Oxford Illustrated History, Chapter 6
secondary: Riley-Smith, Crusades, Chapter 6, pp. 109-121
primary: Ansbert, Letter from the East, 1187
primary: Ernoul, The Battle of Hattin, 1187
primary: De Expugatione Terrae Sanctae de Saladinum, The Battle of Hattin, 1187
primary: De Expugatione Terrae Sanctae de Saladinum, The Capture of Jerusalem
primary: Roger of Hovedon, The Fall of Jerusalem

Tue 6/15 Saladin and Europe's Monarchs

primary: Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa, Letters
primary: Death of Frederick Barbarossa
primary: The Siege and Capture of Acre
primary: Philip Augustus returns to France
primary: Muslim Hostages slain at Acre
primary: Richard the Lionhearted makes peace with Saladin

Wed 6/16 Fourth Crusade: Conquest of Constantinople

secondary: Riley-Smith, Crusades, Chapter 6, pp. 121-130
primary: Preparations for the Fourth Crusade
primary: The Diversion to Zara
primary: The Diversion to Constantinople
primary: The Difficulties with Alexis
primary: The Sack of Constantinople
primary: Pope Innocent III, Letter of Reprimand

Thu 6/17 Later Crusades

secondary: Riley-Smith, Crusades, Chapter 6, pp. 130-151
secondary: Riley-Smith, Crusades, Chapter 7
primary: Cologne Chronicle, The Children's Crusade, 1212
primary: Crusade of Frederick II, 1228-29
primary: Frederick II's Letters, 1229
primary: The Capture of Jerusalem, 1244
[primary: Jean de Joinville, Crusades of St. Louis full text]
primary: Al-Makrisi, Arab Account of St. Louis' Crusade
primary: Letter of Guy, a knight in the 6th Crusade, 1249
primary: The Fall of Acre, 1291

Fri 6/18 The Latin East

secondary: Riley-Smith, Crusades, Chapter 8
secondary: Oxford Illustrated History, Chapter 12

kjolly@hawaii.edu revised 5/20/99