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"De Re Militari: the Society for Medieval Military History is a scholarly society dedicated to the study of warfare, broadly construed, in the Middle Ages. The society is a non-profit, tax-exempt private foundation under Internal Revenue Service Section 509(a). It is run by an all-volunteer group of members from across the educational spectrum: research universities, liberal arts colleges, secondary education, professional military education, independent scholars, and the private sector. Officers receive no compensation from Society dues or the publication of the Society journal."

Book Sources: The Crusades

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The Albigensian Crusades by Joseph Strayer
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library

ISBN: 0472064762

See appendix for document excerpts
An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades by Us¯amah ibn Munqidh
Call Number: DS97.3 U813 1987

ISBN: 0691022690

Memoirs of Us¯amah ibn-Munqidh / translated by Philip K. Hitti.
Arab Historians of the Crusades by Francesco. Gabrieli; E.J. Costello (Translator)
Call Number: Click title for availability

ISBN: 0710028741

Publication Date: 1969
The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades by Usama Ibn Munqidh
Call Number: DS97.3 .U813 2008

ISBN: 0140455132

Translated with an Introduction and notes by Paul M. Cobb.
The Chanson D'antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade by Susan B. Edgington; Carol Sweetenham
Call Number: PQ1425.A48 E5 2011

ISBN: 0754654893
The Chanson d'Antioche : An old French account of the First Crusade by Carol Sweetenham (editor)
Call Number: Online - Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9786613319036

Publication Date: 2016
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh by Ibn al-Ath¯ir, ‘Izz al-D¯in
Call Number: D152 .I2313 2010

ISBN: 0754669505

Part 1. Years 491-541/1097-1146
Part 2. Years 541-589/1146-1193
Part 3. Years 589-629/1193-1231
Translated from the Arabic
The Chronicle of the Third Crusade by Helen J. Nicholson (Editor)
Call Number: Click title for availability

ISBN: 0754605817

Publication Date: 2001-06-01
Chronicles of the Crusades by Elizabeth Hallam (Editor)
Call Number: D151 .C56 1989

ISBN: 1555843654

Nine Crusades and two hundred years of bitter conflict for the Holy Land brought to life through the words of those who were actually there
Chronicles of the Crusades
Call Number: D151 .C557

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.
Free Online at HathiTrust Digital Library
Competing voices from the Crusades by Andrew Holt & James Muldoon
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ISBN: 184645011X

"A collection of eye-witness accounts and contemporary reports like no other - side-by-side extracts from Christian, Muslim and Byzantine participants in the Crusades."
The Conquest of Constantinople by Robert of Clari
Call Number: D164.A3 R642 C7

ISBN: 0231136692

Translated from the Old French by Edgar Holmes McNeal. Covers the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204).
The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in Translation by Peter W. Edbury
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ISBN: 1840146761

Publication Date: 1998-11-02
Crusade and Christendom by Jessalynn Bird (Editor) et al.
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ISBN: 0812244788

Annotated Documents in translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291
The Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick
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ISBN: 0754665755
The Crusades (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World) by Helen Nicholson
Call Number: D157 .N48 2004

ISBN: 0313326851
The Crusades Primary Sources by J. Sydney Jones et al.
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ISBN: 9780787691783

Publication Date: 2004
Crusade Texts in Translation Series by Peter Edbury and Peter Jackson (series editors)
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The Deeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalem-Bound Pilgrims by Nirmal Dass
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central

ISBN: 9781442204997
The First Crusade by Edward Peters (Editor)
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ISBN: 0812210174

The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and other Source Materials
The First Crusade (2nd edition) by Edward Peters (Editor)
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ISBN: 0812216563

The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and other Source Materials
The First Crusade: A Brief History with Documents by Jay Carter Rubenstein
Call Number: D161.2 .R74 2015

ISBN: 1457629100
The Fourth Crusade by Dana Carleton Munro
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea by William, Archbishop of Tyre
Call Number: D152 G78

Translated and annotated by Emily Atwater Babcock and A.C. Krey.
How to Defeat the Saracens by William Adam et al.
Call Number: D172 .W55 2012

ISBN: 0884023761

Tractatus quomodo Sarraceni sunt expugnandi. English & Latin
Letters from the East : crusaders, pilgrims and settlers in the 12th-13th centuries
Call Number: D176 .L47 2010

ISBN: 0754663566

Translated by Malcolm Barber and Keith Bate.
Translated from more than one language.
Letters of the Crusaders by Dana Carleton Munro
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Memoirs of the Crusades by Villehardouin & Jean De Joinville
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

Translated by Sir Frank Marzials
Muslims and Crusaders by Niall Christie
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ISBN: 1138022748

: Christianity's Wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382, from the Islamic Sources
Muslims and Crusaders (2nd edition) by Niall Christie
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ISBN: 9781351007344

Publication Date: 2020-04-02
Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology by James E. Lindsay (Edited and Translated by); Suleiman Ali Mourad (Edited and Translated by)
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ISBN: 9781624669965
The Rule of the Templars by J. M. Upton-Ward
Call Number: CR4737 .T4613 1992

ISBN: 0851153151
Seventh Crusade, 1244-1254: Sources and Documents by Compiled & Translated by Peter Jackson
Call Number: D167 .S48 2007

ISBN: 9780754657224
The World of the Crusades: a Daily Life Encyclopedia by Andrew Holt
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central

ISBN: 9781440854620

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