The First Crusade - Primary Sources and Articles
Primary Sources
Eyewitness accounts of the First Crusade - added July 7, 2002
Siege of Antioch from Peter Tudebode's Historia de Hierosolymitano Itinere - January 24, 2002
Letters of the Crusaders Written from the Holy Land - added September 13, 2002
Books, Chapters and Articles
Balard, Michel, La poliorcétique des Croisés lors de la Premiere Croisade - from Byzantinische Forschungen v.25 (1999) - added May 12, 2003
Cowdrey, H.E.J., Pope Urban II's Preaching of the First Crusade - from The Crusades: Essential Readings, edited by Thomas Madden (2002) (PDF file) - added September 13, 2002
France, John, The capture of Jerusalem - from History Today (1997) - added May 12, 2002
France, John, Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade - from Reading Medieval Studies v.10 (1984) - added September 5, 2002
France, John, The Roots of Victory - from chapter 1 of Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade (1994) - added January 1, 2003
Gore, Terry, The First Battle of the First Crusade: Dorylaeum, 1097 - from The History Net: Military History - added June 3, 2002
Magdalino, Paul, The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade (Toronto, 1996) - added December 28, 2002
Marshall, Christopher J., The Crusading Motivation of the Italian City Republics in the Latin East, c. 1096-1104 - from Rivista di Bizantinistica v.1 (1991) - added March 1, 2003
Nikolakopoulou, Marina, The First & the Second Crusade: The contribution of the Military Orders in the formation of the crusader states in the 11th c. - from Anistoriton v. 2 (1998) - added April 11, 2002
Panagopoulou, Niki, The Armies and the Successes of the First Crusade (1095-1099) - from Anistoriton v. 3 (1999) - added April 11, 2002
Setton, Kenneth M. (ed.), A History of the Crusades - the entire six volume set has been made freely available by the University of Wisconsin-Madison - added May 10, 2002
Thomson, Rod, William of Malmesbury, Historian of Crusade - from Reading Medieval Studies v.23 (1997) - added August 23, 2002
Links to Other Web Sites
http://www.unf.edu/classes/crusades/crusadesbibliography.htm - Crusades Bibliography - by Paul Halsall; this is a very large and comprehensive list of books and articles dealing with the Crusades.
http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/mmarkowski/ssclehome.html - Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
http://www.callisto.si.usherb.ca/~croisade/Byzance.htm - Les Croisades: Sources, Images et Histoire - includes articles and primary texts, mostly in French