Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Crusades task force

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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.

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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 This will automatically place it into Category:Crusades task force articles.
 * (or ) to WPMILHIST (see the instructions for more details on the exact syntax)
 * to WPMA

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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Participants
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 * 1)  - not so much the crusading movement from Europe, but the results of it in the Holy Land, especially the social history of crusader Jerusalem

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Resources
The following resources may be useful when developing articles:
 * User:Adam Bishop/library - 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

A little peripheral, but hopefully of use to some. A standard history; and a mixture of primary and secondary sources:
 * Armenia
 * Kurkjian, Vahan (1958) A History of Armenia, Armenian General Benevolent Union of America, New York, OCLC 889896040.
 * Armenian Historical Sources