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Jean Flori- Where Crusades and Jihad Differ- Interview with Zenit News Service Giles Constable. “The Historiography of the Crusades.” [PDF] In The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World. Dumbarton Oaks, 2001.
What is a Crusade?  Traditionalists vs. Pluralists
The Religious Motivations of the Crusaders
Thomas Madden What the Crusades Were Really Like Thomas Madden Dispels Myths Interview With Zenit News Service October 2004
The Greedy Crusaders Theory
The Crusaders Attacked a Peaceful Muslim World Thomas Madden Crusaders and Historians First Things June 2005
The Crusades: A Defensive War
Jacques Le Goff Did St. Louis Really Exist? An Interview with Jacques Le Goff French Historian
August C. Krey "Introduction [to Crusades Sources]" In The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1921.
The Export of Violence Theory
The Younger Sons Theory
The Crusading as an Act of Love Theory
Interview with Jonathan Riley Smith Holy Violence Then and Now : A Historian Looks at the Causes and Lingering Effects of Christian Warfare. [Partial Transcript] Christianity Today
Crusades as Colonialism Theory Jessalynn Byrd: The Crusades: Eschatological Lemmings, Younger Sons, Papal Hegemomy, and Colonialism- The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
The Fourth Crusade and the Accident Theory
The Invented Memory of the Crusades in the Muslim World
Thomas Madden Crusades of History and Politics Spring 2002- Review of 5 best and 6 worst books on the crusades
The Numbering of the Crusades
Giles Constable Sir Steven Runciman Myriobiblios.gr Reprinted from The Times Literary Supplement Feb. 2, 2001
The Catholic Encyclopedia provides a short, but good general overview of Crusades Sources