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Welcome to the Crusades task force, a joint venture of the Middle Ages and Military history WikiProjects. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. Mind that you do not need any kind of approval to edit an article. Important for edits in the first place is that they are balanced and neutral or bring (more) balance or (more) neutrality in an article, and edits must be verifiable from reliable sources. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. Scope This task force aims to cover aspects of the military expeditions initiated and organised by the Roman-Catholic church in the early Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East, labeled from some 100 years afterwards on as Crusades. The task force covers the Crusader states in the Middle East, crusades against what the Roman-Catholic church saw as heretics and pagans in Europe, the military operation of the Roman-Catholic church and it's allies coined "Reconquista" in Iberia, and crusades against the Ottomans in the Later Middle Ages, as well as Muslim, Eastern Christian, Jewish, and other societies affected by the crusades. The task force tries to go beyond purely military matters, to social, administrative, legal, art, religious, and literary history, and modern historiography of the period. However at the moment not much knowledge or interest exists on these matters within the task force, so the task force welcomes editors who could contribute in these fields, to join. Hopefully in the future, due to edits of Wikipedians all over the world, articles also will contain information about the way crusades, crusaders and crusade-thinking affected societies in other ways than military gain and loss and tells the story from all possible perspectives, not mainly that of the Roman-Catholic narrative. The people in this task force would like to have any article related to the topics mentioned, be marked by adding the following to the project banners at the top of its talk page Crusades-task-force=yes (or Crusades=y) to {{WPMILHIST}} (see the instructions for more details on the exact syntax) Crusades-task-force=yes to {{WPMA}} This will automatically place it into Category:Crusades task force articles. Mind, this is not an obligation, the request makes it easier for the task force to keep an eye on edits.

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1. Adam Bishop (talk · contribs) - not so much the crusading movement from Europe, but the results of it in the Holy Land, especially the social history of crusader Jerusalem
2. Antihistoriaster (talk · contribs)
3. Dainomite (talk · contribs)
4. Djmaschek (talk · contribs)
5. Dr. Grampinator (talk · contribs)
6. Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
7. Elonka (talk · contribs)
8. Ghostexorcist (talk · contribs)
9. Iazyges (talk · contribs)
10. ImanFakhri (talk · contribs)
11. JeBonSer (talk · contribs)
12. Rjensen (talk · contribs)
13. Srnec (talk · contribs)

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Article statistics

The table to the right shows the current article assessment statistics for this task force. A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below: Featured articles Al-Adid Battle of Halmyros Byzantine navy Charles I of Anjou Treaty of Devol Theodore Komnenos Doukas Edward I of England Franco-Mongol alliance Al-Hafiz Hugh de Neville Raymond III, Count of Tripoli Raynald of Châtillon Second Crusade Theodosius III William of Tyre A-Class articles Crusades Ottoman conquest of Lesbos Good articles Al-Adil ibn al-Sallar Adriatic Sea Albigensian Crusade Alexios V Doukas Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah Ayyubid dynasty Banu Munqidh Battle of Arsuf Battle of Saint George Gervase of Bazoches Bethlehem Bohemond II of Antioch Bohemond III of Antioch Boniface of Verona Geoffrey of Briel Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1268 Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 Chlemoutsi Crusades Henry le Despenser John Doukas (megas doux) Eleanor of Castile Fatimid navy First Crusade Genoese occupation of Rhodes Glarentza Gökböri Historiography of the Crusades Homs Hugh of Fauquembergues John II Komnenos Kaloyan of Bulgaria Byzantine army (Komnenian era) Battle of the Olive Grove of Kountouras Krak des Chevaliers Licario Louis I of Hungary Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi Michael I Komnenos Doukas Usama ibn Munqidh Nikephoros III Botaneiates John I Orsini Nicholas Orsini Richard Orsini Ottoman conquest of Lesbos Guy Pallavicini Philip III of France Raymond II, Count of Tripoli Siege of Shaizar Siege of Damascus (1148) Siege of Minerve Alexios Strategopoulos War of the Antiochene Succession War of the Euboeote Succession William the Carpenter Martino Zaccaria

Crusades task force assessment statistics Articles Lists FA 15 FL 0 A 2 AL 0 GA 54     B 94 BL 0 C 195 CL 5 Start 358 List 13 Stub 72     Total 790 Total 18 Other pages Category 132 Disambig 2 Draft 0 File 0 Portal 0 Project 0 Redirect 12 SIA 1 Template 13 User 0 Total 160 Unassessed 0 Statistics ω 3,479 Ω 4.306 category

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Reinald (Crusader) • Saad el-Dawleh

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Charles III, Duke of Lorraine • Massacre at Ayyadieh • Aoife MacMurrough • Siege of Jerusalem (1244) • Fall of Arsuf • Fall of Caesarea • Fall of Haifa (1265)

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First Crusade • Second Crusade

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Good article nominees

• 26 Jul 2024 – Crusading movement (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Norfolkbigfish (t · c); start discussion

Featured article reviews

• 20 Feb 2024 – Edward I of England (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by JimKillock (t · c); see discussion

Good article reassessments

• 23 Oct 2024 – Adriatic Sea (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Resources

The following resources may be useful when developing articles:

• User:Adam Bishop/library#Crusades - My little crusade-related library
• User:Elonka/Mongol historians - hundreds of quotes relevant to Crusader-Mongol relations
• Lyric allusions to the crusades and the Holy Land by Linda Paterson, Colston Symposium, 11/4/03
• Crusades Classroom at Boise State
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: The Crusades
• Bibliography of the First Crusade by Alan V. Murray
• Crusades Encyclopedia
• Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
• Les deux cycles de la Croisade, French site about the Crusade cycle

Primary Sources
First Crusade
Guibert of Nogent	The Deeds of God Through the Franks
Fulcher of Chartres	Historia Hierosolymitana, 1096-1127 (Latin)
Anna Comnena	Alexiad
Anonymous	Gesta Francorum (Latin)
Anonymous	Anonymi Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum (ed. Heinrich Hagenmeyer)
Various	Epistulae et chartae ad historiam primi belli sacri spectantes (ed. Heinrich Hagenmeyer)
Various	The first crusade; the accounts of eye-witnesses and participants (ed. August C. Krey)
Radulfus Cadomensis	Gesta Tancredi (Latin)
Second Crusade
Otto Frisingensis	Gesta Friderici (Latin)
Various	Letters concerning the Second Crusade (doc)
Third Crusade
Anonymous	Itinerary of Richard I and others to the Holy Land (pdf)
Ralph of Coggeshall (attributed)	De Expugnatione Terra Sanctae per Saladinum (doc)
Fourth Crusade
Geoffrey of Villehardouin	The Conquest of Constantinople
Jean de Joinville	Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville
Guntherus Cistercensis Monachus	Historia Captae A Latinis Constantinopoleos (Latin) (doc)
Various	The Fourth Crusade: Selected Texts (doc)
Pope Innocent III	Letters of Pope Innocent III concerning the Fourth Crusade (doc)
Reconquista
Caffaro di Rustico	The Capture of Almeria and Tortosa (doc)
Anonymous	Liber maiolichinus de gestis Pisanorum illustribus (Latin) (pdf)
Osbern	De expugnatione Lyxbonensi (excerpt)
General crusades
Guilelmus Tyrensis	Historia rerum gestarum in partibus transmarinis (Latin)
Anonymous	Old French translation of William of Tyre (Old French)
Bernard le Tresorier	Continuation of William of Tyre
Louis de Mas Latrie	Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier
Alexis Paulin Paris	Guillaume de Tyr et ses continuateurs
Reinhold Röhricht, Gaston Raynaud	Annales de Terre Sainte, 1095-1291
Philip of Novara	Les gestes des Chiprois
John Schmitt	Chronicle of Morea
Anonymous	Tractatus de locis et statu sancta terre (doc)
Jacques de Vitry	A Letter of Jacques de Vitry (doc)
Gaspard Thaumas de la Thaumassiere	Coustumes de Beauvoisis et Assises de Jérusalem
Victor Foucher	Assises du royaume de Jérusalem
Sempad the Constable	Assises d'Antioche
De Roziere	Cartulaire de l'église du Saint Sépulchre de Jérusalem
Henri-François Delaborde	Chartes de Terre Sainte provenant de l'Abbaye de N.-D. de Josaphat
André d'Albon	Cartulaire général de l'ordre du Temple: 1119?-1150
Reinhold Röhricht	Regesta regni Hierosolymitani (MXCVII-MCCXCI)
Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich Tafel, Georg Martin Thomas	Urkunden zur älteren Handels- und Staatsgeschichte der Republik Venedig
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society	Vol. 5: Fetellus, John of Wurzburg, Joannes Phocas, Theoderich, crusader letter
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society	Vol. 6: Anonymous 11th-12th century pilgrims, etc
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society	Vol. 13: Baha ad-Din's Life of Saladin
Ibn Jubayr	The Travels of Ibn Jubayr (ed. William Wright)
Du Cange|	Les familles d'outre-mer, ed. E.G. Rey
Recueil des historiens des croisades	RHC Occ vol. 1; RHC Occ vol. 2; RHC Occ vol. 3; RHC Occ vol. 4; RHC Occ vol. 5; RHC Or vol. 1; RHC Or vol. 2.1; RHC Or vol. 2.2; RHC Or vol. 3; RHC Or vol. 4; RHC Or vol. 5; RHC Arm vol. 1; RHC Arm vol. 2; RHC Grec vol. 1; RHC Grec vol. 2
Secondary Sources
Bon, Antoine	La Morée franque. Recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d'Achaïe
Brodman, J. W.	Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain
Burns, Robert I., S.J.	The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia
Laiou, Angeliki E. and Mottahedeh, Roy Parviz (eds.)	The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (pdf)
Setton, Kenneth (ed.)	A History of the Crusades

Armenia

A little peripheral, but hopefully of use to some. A standard history; and a mixture of primary and secondary sources:

• Kurkjian, Vahan (1958) A History of Armenia, Armenian General Benevolent Union of America, New York, OCLC 889896040.
• Armenian Historical Sources

Notes and references