Bibliography: Primary Narrative Sources in English Translation

General:

[Various Arabic texts.] Arab historians of the Crusades. Ed. Francesco Gabrieli. London: Routledge, 1969.

[Various texts]. The Crusades, a documentary survey. Ed. James A. Brundage. Milwaukee, Marquette University Press, 1962. 318 pp.

First Crusade:

Anna Comnena. The Alexiad of Anna Comnena. Trans. E. R. A. Sewter. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.

[Various.] The first crusade; the accounts of eye-witnesses and participants. Ed. August C. Krey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1921. Repr. Peter Smith 1958.

["Gesta".] The deeds of the Franks and the other pilgrims to Jerusalem. [Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum.] Ed. & trans. Rosalind Hill. London: Nelson, 1962. 113 pp.

Raymond d'Aguilers. Historia Francorum qui ceperunt Iherusalem. Trans. and ed. John Hugh Hill and Laurita L. Hill. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 71. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1968. 146 pp.

Guibert of Nogent. Deeds of God through the Franks. Trans. Robert Levine. Boydell & Brewer, 1997.

Peter Tudebode. Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere. Trans. and ed. John Hugh Hill and Laurita L. Hill. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 101. Philadelphia, 1974.

Fulcher of Chartres. A history of the expedition to Jerusalem, 1095-1127. Trans. Frances Rita Ryan. Ed. Harold S. Fink. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1969. Reprinted Norton 1973. 348 pp.

[Fulcher et al.] The First Crusade: the chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and other source materials. Ed. Edward Peters. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 317 pp.

[Various Hebrew.] The Jews and the Crusaders: the Hebrew chronicles of the First and Second Crusades. Ed. Shlomo Eidelberg. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977. 186 pp.

Second Crusade:

Odo of Deuil. De profectione Ludovici VII in orientem. Ed. & trans. Virginia Gingerick Berry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. Repr. Norton 1965. 154 pp.

Crusader Kingdoms:

William of Tyre. A history of deeds done beyond the sea. [Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum.] Ed. and trans. E. A. Babcock A. C. Krey. 2 vols. Columbia, 1943.

Usamah ibn Munqidh. An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior: Memoirs of Usamah ibn Munqidh. Trans. Philip K. Hitti. Princeton, 1987.

F. E. Peters, Jerusalem: the Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from the Days of Abraham to the beginnings of Modern Times (Princeton, 1985).

Third Crusade:

[Various.] The conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: sources in translation. Ed. Peter W. Edbury. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996. 196 pp.

[various] The Third Crusade; an eye witness account of the campaigns of Richard Coeur-de-Lion in Cyprus and the Holy Land. Ed. Kenneth Fenwick. London, Folio Society, 1958. 164 pp.

[Itinerarium.] Richard, canon of the Holy Trinity of London. Chronicle of the Third Crusade: a translation of the Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta Regis Ricardi. Ed. and trans. Helen J. Nicholson. Aldershot, UK / Brookfield VT: Scolar Press, 1997. 409 pp.

[Richard de Devizes; Geoffrey of Vinsauf, et al.] Chronicles of the crusades, being contemporary narratives of the crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion by Richard of Devizes and Geoffrey de Vinsauf; and of the crusade of St. Louis, by Lord John de Joinville. London: Bohn, 1848. Repr. AMS, 1969. 562 pp.

["Itinerarium" et al.] The crusade of Richard I, 1189-92; extracts from the Itinerarium Ricardi, Bohadin, Ernoul, Roger of Howden. Ed. Thomas Andrew Archer. London,, 1888 and reprints.

Ambroise. The crusade of Richard Lion-Heart. Trans. from the Old French by Merton Jerome Hubert; ed. John L. La Monte. New York, Columbia University Press, 1941. 478 pp.

Fourth Crusade:

Gunther of Pairis. The 'capture of Constantinople' of Gunther of Pairis. Ed. A. J. Andrea. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 194 pp.

Robert of Clari. The conquest of Constantinople. New York: Columbia University Press, 1936. Records of civilization, sources and studies, 23. 150 pp.

[Robert of Clari, etc.] Three Old French chronicles of the crusades: the History of the holy war, the History of them that took Constantinople, the Chronicle of Reims. Tr. Edward Noble Stone. University of Washington publications in the social sciences, 10. Seattle: University of Washington, 1939. 377 pp.

Geoffrey de Villehardouin. 'The conquest of Constantinople,' in Chronicles of the Crusades [Joinville and Villehardouin]. Trans. and ed. M. R. B. Shaw. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.

Nicetas Choniates. O City of Byzantium. Trans. Harry J. Magoulias. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984.

[Chronicle of Morea.] Crusaders as Conquerors: the Chronicle of Morea. Trans. H. E. Lurier. Columbia, 1964.

Later Crusades:

Jean de Joinville. 'The life of Saint Louis,' in Chronicles of the Crusades [Joinville and Villehardouin]. Trans. and ed. M. R. B. Shaw. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.

Oliver of Paderborn (Cardinal, d. 1227). The capture of Damietta. Tr. John J. Gavigan. Translations and reprints from the original sources of history, 3d ser., vol. 2. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1948. 112 pp.

Christian Society and the Crusades, 1198-1229, including The capture of Damietta by Oliver of Paderborn. Ed. Edward Peters. Penn., 1971.

Documents on the Later Crusades, 1274-1580. Ed. Norman Housley. New York: St. Martin's, 1996.

Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century: the Rothelin Continuation of William of Tyre. Trans. Janet Shirley. Ashgate, 1999.

Philip of Novara. The Wars of Frederick II against the Ibelins in Syria and Cyprus. Trans. J. L. La Monte & M. J. Hubert. Columbia, 1936.

Baltic Crusades:

Helmold, priest of Bosau. The Chronicle of the Slavs by Helmold...; translated with introduction and notes by Francis J. Tschan. Columbia, 1935.

Henry of Livonia (ca. 1187-ca. 1259). The chronicle of Henry of Livonia. Ed. and Trans. James A. Brundage. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. 262 pp.

Albigensian Crusade:

Guillaume of Tudela. Song of the Cathar Wars: a history of the Albigensian Crusade. Trans. Janet Shirley. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996.

Pierre des Vaux-de-Cernay. History of the Albigensian Crusade. Trans. W.A. and M.D. Sibly. Boydell, 1998.

Guillaume de Puylaurens, Chronique. Ed. & (Fr.) trans. J. Duvernoy. Paris: CNRS, 1977; Péregrinateur, 1997.

Spanish Reconquista:

Poem of the Cid (Poema del mio Cid). Various translations.

De expugnatione Lyxbonensi: The conquest of Lisbon. Edited from the unique manuscript in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with a translation into English by Charles Wendell David. Columbia, 1936.

World of el Cid: chronicles of the Spanish reconquest. Ed. Simon Barton & Richard Fletcher, Manchester, 2000.

Chronicle of James I, King of Aragon [James the Conqueror]. Tr. J. Forster. 2 vols. London, 1883.

plus numerous other chronicles-several available in English.