Primary Sources: Wars & Conflicts: Crusades

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Memoirs of Us¯amah ibn-Munqidh / translated by Philip K. Hitti.

Selected and Translated from the Arabic sources by Francesco Gabrieli. Translated from the Italian by E.J. Costello.

Translated with an Introduction and notes by Paul M. Cobb.

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

A translation of the itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta Regis Ricardi/ Helen J. Nicholson.

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

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

"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."

Translated from the Old French by Edgar Holmes McNeal. Covers the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204).

sources in translation

Annotated Documents in translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291

The history of the expedition of the Emperor Frederick and related texts / translated by G.A. Loud.

Contains "a dozen annotated primary documents."

""This new translation offers a faithful yet accessible English-language rendering of the twelfth-century Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolomitanorum, the earliest known Latin account of the First Crusade." --Provided by publisher.

The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and other Source Materials

The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and other Source Materials

Translated and annotated by Emily Atwater Babcock and A.C. Krey.

Tractatus quomodo Sarraceni sunt expugnandi. English & Latin

Translated by Malcolm Barber and Keith Bate.
Translated from more than one language.

Translated by Sir Frank Marzials

: Christianity's Wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382, from the Islamic Sources

The French text of the Rule of the Order of the Knights Templar
Translation of Henri de Curzon's 1886 ed. of La règle du Temple.
Appendix. La règle du Temple as a military manual, or, How to deliver a cavalry charge / Matthew Bennett. Translated from the French.

Sources and Documents
Compiled & Translated by Peter Jackson