An epic 9-hour long history of the First Crusade
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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.
Edward Peters, The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials, 2nd 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.