Crusades, military orders and medieval Hungary

The course provides a pluralist survey and analysis of the role played by Hungary in the crusading movement until the end of the Middle Ages. Parallel to this approach, the activity of the military-religious orders is going to be discussed.

Readings

Sources:

• Allen, S. J., and Emilie Amt, eds. The Crusades: A Reader. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2003.
• Housley, Norman, ed. Documents on the later Crusades, 1274-1580. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
• Riley-Smith, Louise and Jonathan, eds. The Crusades: Idea and Reality, 1095-1274. London: Edward Arnold, 1981.

Secondary literature:

• Angold, Michael. The Fourth Crusade: event and context. Harlow-New York: Longman, 2003.
• Asbridge, Thomas. The Crusades. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
• Atiya, Aziz Suryal. The Crusade of Nicopolis. New York: AMS Press, 1978.
• Halecki, Oskar. The Crusade of Varna. New York: Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, 1943.
• Housley, Norman, ed. Crusading in the Fifteenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• Housley, Norman. The Avignon Papacy and the Crusades, 1305-1378. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.
• Housley, Norman. Fighting for the Cross. Crusading to the Holy Land. New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2008.
• Housley, Norman. The Later Crusades, 1274-1580: from Lyons to Alcazar. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Hunyadi, Zsolt, József Laszlovszky, eds. The Crusades and the Military Orders: Expanding the Frontiers of Medieval Latin Christianity. Budapest: CEU Department of Medieval Studies, 2001 (CEU Press, 2009).
• Kennedy, Hugh. Crusader Castles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Laiou, Angeliki E., and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, eds. The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World. Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts, Washington, 2001.
• Madden, Thomas F., ed. The Crusades: The Essential Readings. Oxford-Malden: Blackwell, 2002.
• Murray, Alan V., ed. Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier, 1150-1500. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.
• Phillips, Jonathan, Martin Hoch, eds. The Second Crusade. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.
• Phillips, Jonathan. Holy Warriors. A Modern History of the Crusades. New York: Random House, 2009.
• Powell, James M. Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213-1221. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
• Queller, Donald E. The Fourth Crusade: the Conquest of Constantinople, 1201–1204. 2nd rev. ed. Philadelphia: UPenn Press, 1997.Richard, Jean. The Crusades, c.1071-c.1291. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The Crusades. A Short History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987/2005.
• Setton, Kenneth Meyer, gen. ed. A History of the Crusades. 6 vols. vol. 1. The First Hundred Years. Ed. Marshall W. Baldwin (1955); vol. 2. The Later Crusades. Ed. Robert L. Wolff (1962); vol. 3. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Ed. Harry W. Hazard (1975); vol. 4. The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States. Ed. Harry W. Hazard (1977); vol. 5. The Impact of the Crusades on the Near East. Ed. Norman P. Zacour and Harry W. Hazard (1985). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969-1989.
• Sweeney, James Ross, "Hungary and the Crusades." International History Review 3 (1980).
• Tyerman, Christopher. God's War. A New History of the Crusades. London: Allen Lane, 2006.

Manuals, auxiliary materials:

• Lock, Peter. The Routledge Companion to the Crusades. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
• Murray, Alan V., ed. The Crusades: an Encyclopedia. 4 vols. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara-Denver-Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2006
• Chronology of the Crusades
• Bibliographies
  • Hunyadi, Zsolt. "A Bibliography of the Crusades and the Military Orders." In The Crusades and the Military Orders: Expanding the Frontiers of Medieval Latin Christianity, Ed. Zsolt Hunyadi and József Laszlovszky. Budapest, 2001, 501-589.