For subscriptions or information about this journal please email [email protected]: 1476-5276Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history.Ashgate, together with The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, has taken the initiative to launch this journal. Because the greatest need appears to be for more historical sources - narrative, homiletic and documentary - to be made available in trustworthy editions, editorial preference is given here to the publication of texts in both European and oriental languages, although interpretative material is not neglected. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin.The editors are Professor B.Z. Kedar of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Professor J.S.C. Riley-Smith of the University of Cambridge, together with Dr Helen Nicholson of Cardiff University and Michael Evans of Reading University as associate editors.Contributors to volume 3 include: Benjamin Z. Kedar, Denys Pringle, Michael Stone and Peter Frankopan.