Third Crusade

Supplemental Resources

There are about a zillion books and articles on the First Crusade--far more than for any of the other crusades. I list here only a sampling. For a detailed bibliography, see Paul Halsall's crusades site

Jonathan Riley-Smith, The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.

Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The First Crusaders, 1095-1131

Erdmann, Carl. The Origins of the Idea of the Crusades. Trans. M.W. Baldwin and W. Goffart. Princeton, 1977

Anderssohn, J.C. The Ancestry and Life of Godfrey of Bouillon, 1947

Baldwin, Marshall W. Raymond III of Tripoli, 1936

Brundage, James A. "The Army of the First Crusade and the Crusade Vow: Some Reflections on a Recent Book." Medieval Studies 33 (1971)

Cowdrey, H. E. J. "Pope Urban II's Preaching of the First Crusade." History 55 (1970): 177-88.

David, Charles W. Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy. 1920

Duncalf, Frederic. "The Peasants Crusade." American Historical Review 26 (1921): 440-53.

Evans, Mark L. "The Battle of Arsuf." Military History 18:3 ( 2001): 34-41.

Foss, Michael. People of the First Crusade. New York: Arcade, 1997

France, John. "The Capture of Jerusalem." History Today April 1, 1997

France, John. Victory in the East: a Military History of the First Crusade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Gore, Terry L. "The First Victory of the First Crusade: Dorylaeum, 1097 AD." Military History (June 1998). Online at www.thehistorynet.com/MilitaryHistory/articles/1998/06982_cover.htm

Hill, John H., and Laurita Littleton Hill. Raymond IV: Count of Toulouse. Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press, 1962

McFall, J. Arthur. "Ill-Fated Crusade of the Poor People." Military History (Feb. 1998) [Online at http://www.thehistorynet.com/MilitaryHistory/articles/1998/0298_text.htm ]

McFall, J. Arthur. "Taking Jerusalem: Climax of the First Crusade." Military History (June 1999) [Online at http://www.thehistorynet.com/MilitaryHistory/articles/1999/0699_text.htm ]

Morris, Colin. "The Case of the Holy Lance at Antioch." In War and Government in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of J.O. Prestwich. Edited by J.C. Holt & John Gillingham, 33-45. Cambridge UK: Boydell Press; Totowa NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1984

Munro, Dana C. "The Speech of Urban II at Clermont." American Historical Review 11 (1906), 231-40.

Munro, Dana C. "Did the Emperor Alexius Ask for Aid at the Council of Piacenza 1095?" American Historical Review 27 (1922)

Nicholson, R.L. Tancred, 1940

Phillips, Jonathan, ed, The First Crusade: Origins and Impact. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997

Phillips, Jonathan. "Who Were the First Crusaders?" History Today 47:5 (March 1997): 16-22.

Porges, Walter. "The Clergy, the Poor, and the Non-combatants on the First Crusade." Speculum 21: 1 (1946): 1-23.

Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The First Crusaders, 1095-1131. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Wolf, Kenneth Baxter. "Crusade and Narrative: Bohemond and the Gesta Francorum." Journal of Medieval History 17 (1991): 207-16.

Yewdale, R.B. Bohemond I, 1924