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

Monday, November 2, 2020

Democracy in the Middle Ages

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On the eve of the U.S. Elections, it is perhaps useful to reflect that democracy didn't always look like this. Representative Democracy ...
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Monday, October 19, 2020

The Diverse Peoples of the Crusader States

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It is commonplace for people today to portray the crusaders not only as barbarians vis-à-vis their Islamic enemies, but as “oppressors” of...
Monday, October 5, 2020

The Lost Learning of the Middle Ages

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The notion that most "knowledge" was somehow "lost" during the Middle Ages is so widespread that it seemed appropriate t...
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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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