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The following resources may be useful when developing articles:
- User:Adam Bishop/library#Crusades - 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
Primary Sources | |
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First Crusade | |
Guibert of Nogent | The Deeds of God Through the Franks |
Fulcher of Chartres | Historia Hierosolymitana, 1096-1127 (Latin) |
Anna Comnena | Alexiad |
Anonymous | Gesta Francorum (Latin) |
Anonymous | Anonymi Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum (ed. Heinrich Hagenmeyer) |
Various | Epistulae et chartae ad historiam primi belli sacri spectantes (ed. Heinrich Hagenmeyer) |
Various | The first crusade; the accounts of eye-witnesses and participants (ed. August C. Krey) |
Radulfus Cadomensis | Gesta Tancredi (Latin) |
Second Crusade | |
Otto Frisingensis | Gesta Friderici (Latin) |
Various | Letters concerning the Second Crusade (doc) |
Third Crusade | |
Anonymous | Itinerary of Richard I and others to the Holy Land (pdf) |
Ralph of Coggeshall (attributed) | De Expugnatione Terra Sanctae per Saladinum (doc) |
Fourth Crusade | |
Geoffrey of Villehardouin | The Conquest of Constantinople |
Jean de Joinville | Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville |
Guntherus Cistercensis Monachus | Historia Captae A Latinis Constantinopoleos (Latin) (doc) |
Various | The Fourth Crusade: Selected Texts (doc) |
Pope Innocent III | Letters of Pope Innocent III concerning the Fourth Crusade (doc) |
Reconquista | |
Caffaro di Rustico | The Capture of Almeria and Tortosa (doc) |
Anonymous | Liber maiolichinus de gestis Pisanorum illustribus (Latin) (pdf) |
Osbern | De expugnatione Lyxbonensi (excerpt) |
General crusades | |
Guilelmus Tyrensis | Historia rerum gestarum in partibus transmarinis (Latin) |
Anonymous | Old French translation of William of Tyre (Old French) |
Bernard le Tresorier | Continuation of William of Tyre |
Louis de Mas Latrie | Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier |
Alexis Paulin Paris | Guillaume de Tyr et ses continuateurs |
Reinhold Röhricht, Gaston Raynaud | Annales de Terre Sainte, 1095-1291 |
Philip of Novara | Les gestes des Chiprois |
John Schmitt | Chronicle of Morea |
Anonymous | Tractatus de locis et statu sancta terre (doc) |
Jacques de Vitry | A Letter of Jacques de Vitry (doc) |
Gaspard Thaumas de la Thaumassiere | Coustumes de Beauvoisis et Assises de Jérusalem |
Victor Foucher | Assises du royaume de Jérusalem |
Sempad the Constable | Assises d'Antioche |
De Roziere | Cartulaire de l'église du Saint Sépulchre de Jérusalem |
Henri-François Delaborde | Chartes de Terre Sainte provenant de l'Abbaye de N.-D. de Josaphat |
André d'Albon | Cartulaire général de l'ordre du Temple: 1119?-1150 |
Reinhold Röhricht | Regesta regni Hierosolymitani (MXCVII-MCCXCI) |
Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich Tafel, Georg Martin Thomas | Urkunden zur älteren Handels- und Staatsgeschichte der Republik Venedig |
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society | Vol. 5: Fetellus, John of Wurzburg, Joannes Phocas, Theoderich, crusader letter |
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society | Vol. 6: Anonymous 11th-12th century pilgrims, etc |
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society | Vol. 13: Baha ad-Din's Life of Saladin |
Ibn Jubayr | The Travels of Ibn Jubayr (ed. William Wright) |
Du Cange| | Les familles d'outre-mer, ed. E.G. Rey |
Recueil des historiens des croisades | RHC Occ vol. 1; RHC Occ vol. 2; RHC Occ vol. 3; RHC Occ vol. 4; RHC Occ vol. 5; RHC Or vol. 1; RHC Or vol. 2.1; RHC Or vol. 2.2; RHC Or vol. 3; RHC Or vol. 4; RHC Or vol. 5; RHC Arm vol. 1; RHC Arm vol. 2; RHC Grec vol. 1; RHC Grec vol. 2 |
Secondary Sources | |
Bon, Antoine | La Morée franque. Recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d'Achaïe |
Brodman, J. W. | Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain |
Burns, Robert I., S.J. | The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia |
Laiou, Angeliki E. and Mottahedeh, Roy Parviz (eds.) | The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (pdf) |
Setton, Kenneth (ed.) | A History of the Crusades |
- Armenia
A little peripheral, but hopefully of use to some. A standard history; and a mixture of primary and secondary sources:
- Kurkjian, Vahan (1958) A History of Armenia, Armenian General Benevolent Union of America, New York, OCLC 889896040.
- Armenian Historical Sources
- ^ Note: When Pope Urban II, at Clermont in 1095, proposed the operation that would become the First Crusade, he described his strategy in speeches and letters as an armed pilgrimage or a God-approved, non-sinful war.