77 The First Crusade Complete

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Sources: 

Anna Comnena: The Alexiad

Nirmal Dass, The Deeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalem-Bound Pilgrims: The Earliest Chronicle of the First Crusade, 2011.

Enyclopedia Britannica

Gesta Francorum

Peter Frankopan, The First Crusade: The Call from the East, 2012. 

The Gesta Tancredi of Ralph of Caen: A History of the Normans on the First Crusade. Trans. Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach, 2016.

Bernard Hamilton, “Knowing the Enemy: Western Understanding of Islam at the Time of the Crusades,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Nov., 1997, Third Series, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Nov., 1997), pp. 373-387.

Kings and Generals

Edward Peters, The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials, 2^nd ed., 1998.

Jonathan Riley-Smith, “The Motives of the Earliest Crusaders and the Settlement of Latin Palestine, 1095-1100,” The English Historical Review, Oct., 1983, Vol. 98, No. 389 (Oct., 1983), pp. 721- 736.

Jonathan Riley-Smith, The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading, 2009.