List of sources for the Crusades

Main article: Historians and histories of the Crusades

The list of sources for the Crusades provides those contemporaneous written accounts and other artifacts of the Crusades covering the period from the Council of Clermont in 1095 until the fall of Acre in 1291. These sources include chronicles, personal accounts, official documents and archaeological findings. As such, these lists provide the medieval historiography of the Crusades.

A number of 17th through 19th century historians published numerous collections of original sources of the Crusades. These include Recueil des historiens des croisades (RHC), Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), Revue de l'Orient Latin/Archives de l'Orient Latin (ROL/AOL) and the Rolls Series. Other collections are of interest to the Crusader period include Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France (RHF), Rerum Italicarum scriptores (RISc), Patrologia Latina (MPL), Patrologia Graeco-Latina (MPG), Patrologia Orientalis (PO), Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (CSCO) and Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (PPTS).

Modern reference material to these sources include Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,[1] Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium,[2] Dictionary of National Biography,[3] Neue Deutsche Biographie,[4] Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie,[5] Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church,[6] Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages,[7] Catholic Encyclopedia,[8] New Catholic Encyclopedia,[9] Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle,[10] Encyclopædia Iranica,[11] Encyclopædia Islamica and Encyclopaedia of Islam.[12] Contemporary histories include the three-volume A History of the Crusades (1951–1954) by Steven Runciman; the Wisconsin collaborative study A History of the Crusades (1969–1989) edited by Kenneth M. Setton, particularly the Select Bibliography[13] by Hans E. Mayer; Fordham University's Internet Medieval Sourcebook;[14] and The Crusades: An Encyclopedia, edited by Alan V. Murray.[15]

  1. ^ Barker, Ernest (1911). "Crusades" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 524–552.
  2. ^ Alexander P. Kazhdan (2005). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press.
  3. ^ Dictionary of National Biography.
  4. ^ Neue Deutsche Biographie.
  5. ^ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
  6. ^ F. L. Cross  and E. A. Livingstone (2009). Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press.
  7. ^ Crusades. The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2010). R. Bjork, ed.
  8. ^ Bréhier, Louis (1908). "Crusades (Sources and Bibliography)". In Catholic Encyclopedia. 4. New York.
  9. ^ C. Maier (2003), "Crusades" (PDF), The New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 4 (2nd ed.), Gale, pp. 405–415.
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  11. ^ Jackson, Peter. "Crusades". Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. VI, Fasc 4. pp. 433–434.
  12. ^ "Crusades". Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill. October 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  13. ^ "Select Bibliography of the Crusades" (PDF). A History of the Crusades. Vol. VI: The Impact of the Crusades on Europe. 1989. pp. 511–664.
  14. ^ Fordham University, Internet Medieval Sourcebook. "Selected Sources—The Crusades". Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Fordham University. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  15. ^ Murray, Alan V. (2006), The Crusades - An Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO