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The Domesday Book is the result of a survey carried out in England and parts of Wales in 1086. The book is one of the first and therefore oldest public records in England and therefore serves as a great resource for geographers, genealogists and historians. The Open Domesday Book is the first free online copy of the Domesday Book. It also includes a great Google Maps interface that allows users to search for locations and quickly find references in the Domesday Book to the location and places nearby. If you search for a location you can view on a Google Map the places mentioned in the Book in that area. If you click through on any of the referenced locations you can view an image of the original text and a breakdown of the data recorded in the Domesday Book.

Knighton's Chronicle 1337-1396 read online in Google Books

search results in the book for "Harrying of the north"

search results in the book for "harrying of the north"

Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528  Read more about this book at http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/315

Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy - read the book at  http://www.archive.org/details/gothicarchitectu02jackuoft

Crusader Castles in the Holy Land 1097-1192 

The Oxford history of the Crusades

The central convent of Hospitallers and Templars

Archaeology of the military orders: a survey of the urban centres,

The Hospitallers and the Holy Land: financing the Latin East, 1187-1274

The Battle of Hastings: sources and interpretations By Stephen Morillo

The word 'Assassin' was brought back from Syria by the Crusaders, and in time acquired the meaning of murderer. Originally it was applied to the members of a Muslim religious sect - a branch of the Ismailis, and the followers of a leader known as the Old Man of the Mountain. Their beliefs and their methods made them a by-word for both fanaticism and terrorism in Syria and Persia in the 11th and 12th centuries, and the subject of a luxuriant growth of myth and legend. In this book, Bernard Lewis begins by tracing the development of these legends in medieval and modern Europe and the gradual percolation of accurate knowledge concerning the Ismailis. He then examines the origins and activities of the sect, on the basis of contemporary Persian and Arabic sources, and against the background of Middle Eastern and Islamic history. In a final chapter he discusses some of the political, social and economic implications of the Ismailis, and examines the significance of the Assassins in the history of revolutionary and terrorist movements.