Sixth Crusade
Supplemental Resources
Abulafia, David. Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor. 1988.
Barraclough, Geoffrey. The Origins of Modern Germany. 1963.
LaMonte, John L., translator. The Wars of Frederick II against the Ibelins in Syria and Cyprus, by Philip de Novare. Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies, Number 25 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936).
Peters, Edward, editor. Christian Society and the Crusades, 1198-1229. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971. Pages 146-170 concern the Sixth Crusade.
Van Cleve, Thomas C. "The Crusade of Frederick II" in Setton, A History of the Crusdes, Volume III, pp. 429-462.
Strayer, Joseph R. "The Political Crusades of the Thirteenth Century" in Setton, A History of the Crusdes, Volume III, pp. 343-376. This essay explains how the popes came to use the crusade as a political weapon against their enemies and includes Frederick's struggle with Gregory IX and Innocent IV.
Frederick Hohenstaufen, THE ART OF FALCONRY. Being The De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus Stanford, 1969 Stanford University Press. The Emperor wrote a book on falconry that is still being published.
http://www.saritel.it/bari/uk/bari0017.html Some photos of Frederick's castle at Bari. The visuals show as well as anything how intertwined were the influences of Byzantium, Rome, Normandy and Islam.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/salimbene1.html G.G. Coulton has here a short passage on Salimbene's biography of Frederick II, giving some human dimensions to the Emperor.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fred2-princes.html The Statute in Favor of the Princes, 1231. Frederick grants extensive privileges to the barons of Germany.
http://pow.neomedia.it/tradizioni/storia/3-en.html A short history of medieval Palermo, with some lovely pictures. There links to earlier and later periods in the city's history, too.
Guy, A Knight: Letter from the Sixth Crusade, 1249
Philip of Novara, Deeds of the Cypriots, The Crusade of Frederick II
The Capture of Jerusalem in 1244