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

Friday, December 1, 2017

Review: "The New Knighthood" by Malcolm Barber

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"Knightfall," a TV series aired by the History Channel, is a fictional drama filled with inaccuracies and misinformation. In co...

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Thursday, November 23, 2017

A Royal Abduction?

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In November 1190, Princess Isabella of Jerusalem, then 18 years old, was forcibly removed from the tent she was sharing with her husb...

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Friday, November 17, 2017

Saladin's Armies

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The crusader kingdoms consistently faced an enemy that significantly outnumbered them, and it is often this sense of "massive hordes...

Friday, November 10, 2017

Crusader Art

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The scarcity of artwork dating from the crusader period found in the Holy Land today does not reflect — as some commentators suggest — a l...

Thursday, November 2, 2017

The Red Sea Raids Revisited

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In December of 1182, during a truce between Salah ad-Din and the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, pirate ships manned by an estimated 3,000 ...

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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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