The New Concise History of the Crusades (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
"In little more than 200 pages, in crystal-clear and economical prose, Madden does a superb job of exposition. As an introduction to the vast literature of the crusades, this is a jewel of a book. "
-- The Washington Post"A brilliant text and handbook for students, teachers, and all readers taking interest in the history of the Crusades."
—Byzantische Zeitschrift"Readers will owe Thomas Madden warm thanks for so clear an introductory account of so complex a phenomenon as a crusade."
—The Historian"I love this book. It is clearly and artfully written, user-friendly, and well-organized, with excellent maps and an up-to-date suggested readings and sources in translation section."
-- Paul Cobb, University of Notre Dame"Madden's books are the best."— Criterion
Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003; paperback, 2005).
Winner of the 2005 Otto Grundler Award of the the Medieval Institute.Winner of the 2007 Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America.Translated into Italian edition."An example of the kind of history that should be read and written by all students of history."
-- Donald B. Epstein, History: Reviews of New Books"With [this book], Madden more than ever stakes out his place as one of the most important medievalists in America at present."
—John W. Barker, Medieval Review"A refreshing contribution not only to study of the Fourth Crusade but also to that of medieval Venice."
—David Malkiel, American Historical Review"An elegantly constructed book that gives a new twist to the fourth crusade and a new perspective on the government and constitution of Venice at a critical moment in its development."
—Michael Angold, International History Review"Helps shed a great deal of new light on the origins of Venice's political system."
—Karl Appuhn, Speculum"This book provides the best study in English of a twelfth-century Italian city: authoritative, accessible, and cogently argued. Written in a fluid, assured style that will appeal to general readers, it also learnedly and forthrightly takes on many controversial scholarly issues. ... He brings medieval Venice to life, both in its lagoon and as a participant in great European movements."
—Stanley Chojnacki, The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillCrusades: The Illustrated History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004; paperback, 2005).
A Book-of-the-Month Club SelectionA History Book Club Selection"The book is a model of organization and pertinent illustration, with maps, sidebars, a chronology and an accessible bibliography. Given so fine and comprehensive an introduction, readers are likely to turn to the classic prose narratives, both Christian and Islamic. They will also have a new appreciation of the current Christian-Islamic conflict and its many roots."
-- ForeWord"[Crusades] is attractively illustrated and has a great number of boxes and sidebars offering a more detailed examination of people and events that are mentioned in the main text. A useful introduction to the subject for students and interested readers alike, [and] a fine addition to both public and academic libraries."
--Library Journal
The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople, second edition (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997; paperback, 1999), with Donald E. Queller.
A History Book Club Selection"A masterful, up-to-date revision, which has taken a classic to an even higher level of historical inquiry and subtlety."
—James Ross Sweeney, Pennsylvania State University"As a work of scholarship the new edition is a considerable achievement since it has taken a classic and made it even better."
—Nottingham Medieval Studies
The Crusades: The Essential Readings (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).
"Madden's new book seeks to bridge the gap between popular caricatures of the crusades and the more balanced picture of the movement that historians have been producing for more than a generation. The dozen specimens of lively recent scholarship on the crusades that Madden has assembled here are shrewdly calculated to provoke students into rethinking what they thought they knew about the crusading movement.”
--James A. Brundage, University of Kansas"[Madden] provides an introduction which traces the fluctuating approaches to crusading in western Europe and America from the Renaissance to the world after 11 September 2001. This survey is very well pitched towards a general readership, placing the academic debates in the wider context of world events and how they have changed attitudes to ideologically motivated warfare."
--Jonathan Harris, University of London"Madden's thoughtful introduction describes the historiography of crusade studies in an accessible way. He includes modern perspectives, touching on the post-September 11 political and religious context."
--Catholic Historical Review 
Medieval and Renaissance Venice (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999), co-editor.
"...marked by careful scholarship and lively (even racy) presentation."
--Journal of Interdisciplinary History."...a real harvest of the Middle Ages."
--The Historian."With many of its essays employing different methodologies and based upon extensive archival research, this festschrift documents the growing centrality of Venice in premodern historical studies."
--American Historical Review
Empires of Trust (New York: Dutton/Penguin, 2008).
"Informed by a depth of learning that will impress even the most knowledgeable. ... History does not repeat. But it does teach -- and Thomas Madden here shows himself a marvelous teacher."
-- Commentary"Madden's fresh take is provocative and stimulating and will give readers interested in both ancient and modern history much food for thought."
-- Foreign Affairs"Madden's gift as a historian is the ability to get us to think of people who lived more than 2,000 years ago in contemporary terms."
-- San Francisco Chronicle"It is a breath of fresh air to read Thomas Madden. His scholarly credentials as a pre-modern historian are impeccable. Yet he also has the ability, too rare in the academy, to write with bracing clarity and to address our present preoccupations."
-- Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University"Madden asks us to contemplate the invisible and often unconscious dynamic that transforms some nations into empires, often against their will. This is a big idea, presented in a prose style that defies the jargon-choked language of so much scholarship today. This is a break-out book."
-- Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding BrothersThomas F. Madden
The Fourth Crusade: Event, Aftermath, and Perceptions (Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing, 2008)
A select collection of scholarly papers delivered at the Sixth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East in Istanbul, Turkey, 25-29 August 2004.
