Defending the Crusader Kingdoms: Turcopoles

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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Friday, August 25, 2017

Frankish Armies of Outremer

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For the nearly ninety years between the founding of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the defeat of the Christian army at Hattin in July 11...

Friday, April 29, 2016

The Army of Jerusalem

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For the nearly ninety years between the founding of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the defeat of the Christian army at Hattin in July 11...

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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 6, 2015

Crusader Society: An Overview and Introduction

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The Crusader States established by the First Crusade in 1099 were distinctly different from the feudal societies from which the founders of...

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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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