How to Plan a Crusade

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Crusading 101 by Timothy D. Lusch

How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages, by Oxford professor Christopher Tyerman, demolishes the legend that Western crusaders were mere irrational rabble from Dark Age rubble.

ANZAC Day (April 25)

A perspective on Gallipoli I had not seen before, from Fr. Hunwicke: "The Beautiful City": ANZAC, April 25 1915

Crusading and Chivalry

Crusading as a knightly deed

Crusading as a knightly deed: How far do the works of Jean of Joinville and James I of Aragon depict crusading as an integral part of chivalry in the thirteenth century?

By Stephen Bennett

academia.edu

Thomas Madden on the First Crusade

medievalists.net: Rivers of Blood: An Analysis of One Aspect of the Crusader Conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 by Thomas Madden

I had the link saved, but didn't have the time to post it yet - h/t to Tea at Trianon.

The Crusades

Crash Course on the Crusades by Steve Weidenkopf
We Are the Crusaders by John W. Carlson

Do we lack thumos today? Some of the victims in Aurora may have died shielding their women from the bullets of the shooter. Mike Adams asks the tough question (even if some may consider it inappropriate), Why did no one fight back? Questions linger over James Holmes Batman movie theater shooting

Mental preparedness (including knowing what to do) is only part of the equation? Is there the will to do it, or the fight part of the "fight-or-flight" instinct?

The frailties of men

Could Byzantium have been saved?

The First Crusade, the true story

Why was there a sudden need to recover the city where Jesus Christ lived and was crucified? The answer, writes Peter Frankopan, lies in the imperial capital of Constantinople.
By Peter Frankopan *

Harvard University Press & Random House UK

A review in The Tablet.

Items of Interest, 17 October 2011

David Korten: Why I’m in Solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet
11 Ways to Support the Occupy Movement

How questioning economic growth left me feeling like a “Pilgrim from the 25th Century” by Rob Hopkins (EB)

Helena Norberg-Hodge:
"The Economics of Happiness," an interview with Helena Norberg Hodge (mp3)

A Conversation with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Part I

Peak Oil:
Review of Lieutenant Colonel Fleming’s U.S. Army War College thesis on Peak Oil by Rick Munroe
(the paper)

The Iranian Assassination Plot:
GARETH PORTER, How to Spin a Plot

Study debunks myths on organic farms by Paul Hanley

PJB reads an excerpt from Suicide of a Superpower - and a post from today, AD 2041 - The End of White America?

Paul Gottfried, What in the Hell is a Paleo?

History:
Revisionism about the First Crusade? Historian Peter Frankopan is challenging a millennium of scholarship in his view of the First Crusade

More BS trying to destroy male friendship in the name of homoeroticism: Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment”

Catholic:
Msgr. Andrew Burnham: The Liturgical Patrimony of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and the Reform of the Reform
Association for Latin Liturgy Conference at St. Mary Magdalen, Brighton

Music:
Blue Heron & Ensemble Plus Ultra: Stunning Polyphony

2 from the Spring 2011 edition of The Intercollegiate Review

"Rethinking Calhoun" by Adam Tate
"Four Myths about the Crusades" by Paul F. Crawford

UND Press is publishing a book by Jonathan Riley-Smith

Templars and Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land
Jonathan Riley-Smith


Crusades Encyclopedia profile
Rethinking the Crusades | Jonathan Riley-Smith
The Venetian Crusade of 1122-1124 (pdf)
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam

See also Interview with Rodney Stark. (Professor Stark's page.) He is the author of God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades.