Third Crusade

Supplemental Resources

Read the appropriate sections in Runciman, Mayer, Riley-Smith and Setton, but there is no good work specifically on the Third Crusade.

J. Gillingham, Richard the Lionheart, 1978.

Lyons, Malcolm Cameron and Jackson, D.E.P. Saladin. The Politics of Holy War. 1982.

Primary sources on-line include:

William of Tyre: Latin Disarray, 1150-1185

Aymeric, patriarch of Antioch: The Decline of Christian Power in the Holy Land, 1164

Ansbert: Letter from the East to the Master of the Hospitallers, 1187

Ernoul: The Battle of Hattin

The Battle of Hattin

The Capture of Jerusalem by Saladin

Roger of Hoveden: The Fall Of Jerusalem

Death of Frederick Barbarossa

Richard the Lion-Hearted Conquers Cyprus

The Siege and Capture of Acre

Philip Augustus Returns to France

Muslim Hostages Slain at Acre

Richard the Lionheart Makes Peace with Saladin