Defending the Crusader Kingdoms

This blog is dedicated to discussing the Crusader Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus. Dr. Schrader holds a PhD in History from the University of Hamburg. For more information visit: http://defenderofjerusalem.com or http://crusaderkingdoms.com

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Life in the Crusader States: Icons

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It was not merely in the production of miniatures on parchment that Frankish painters excelled. Acre and Frankish Cyprus both developed in...

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Saturday, September 12, 2026

Life in the Crusader States: Manuscript Illustrations

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre’s scriptorium was founded in the first decades of the Kingdom of Jerusalem by monks from Europe, who brou...

Saturday, September 5, 2026

LIfe in the Crusader States: Architectural Decoration

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The most important remnants of Frankish art dating from the twelfth century are the decorations of the key crusader shrines: The Church of...

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Friday, August 28, 2026

Life in the Crusader States: Frankish Art - An Introduction

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Arguably, ‘one of the least known aspects about the Crusades is the art that was commissioned by the Crusaders in the Holy Land from the t...

Saturday, August 22, 2026

Life in the Crusader States: Domestic Archecture

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Frankish domestic architecture consisted broadly of two types: that which had been inherited through the occupation of existing structures...

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Helena P. Schrader: Helena P. Schrader is a former U.S. diplomat, who earned her PhD in Modern History from the University of Hamburg. She spent roughly one-third of her life in Berlin and first explored the pivotal events of the Berlin Crisis 1948-1949 in her comprehensive non-fiction study The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift. Schrader is the author of twenty novels, twelve of which have earned one or more literary awards. Three of her books have also attained "best-seller" status on amazon, including #1 Best Seller in the categories Aviation History and Wartime Fiction.

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