Defending the Crusader Kingdoms: Religious Tolerance

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

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Thursday, December 26, 2019

Worshiping Christ in Frankish Cyprus

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During the last century, the assumption was that during the reign of the Lusignans the Latin elite oppressed and despised the Greek Orthod...

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Jews in the Crusader States

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Everyone has heard how the crusaders slaughtered all the inhabitants of the Jerusalem when they captured the city by storm on July 15, 1099...

Friday, April 3, 2015

The “Other Christians”: Orthodox Christianity in the Crusader Kingdoms

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In my last entry I argued that, on the whole, Muslims were not worse off under the crusaders, so why should the Christians, that the crus...

Friday, March 20, 2015

The Demography of the Crusader Kingdoms

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There are two popular misconceptions about the demography of the crusader kingdoms prevalent today: 1. That the crusaders were a...

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Friday, May 16, 2014

Myths about the Crusader States 4:

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Christian Rulers were Bigoted and Intolerant Most popular literature about the crusader states alleges that the Latin rulers w...

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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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