| Crusades-Encyclopedia Background to the Crusades |
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| Alexius I Comnenus Letter of Alexius to Count Robert of Flanders [c. 1088-1099] Crusades-Encyclopedia [Full text] | Link to this website's section on the First Crusade | ||||||||||||||
| Dr. Paul Crawford: The Crusades: Political and Military Background ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies | |||||||||||||||
| Link to this website's section on the Arab Conquests | |||||||||||||||
| Pope Gregory VII Call for a Crusade [1074] Crusades-Encyclopedia | |||||||||||||||
| Dr. Paul Crawford The Crusades: Additional Background ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies | Link to this website's section on the Reconquista | ||||||||||||||
| Pope Leo IV Forgiveness of Sins for Those Who Dies in Battle with the Heathen [847-855] Crusades-Encyclopedia | |||||||||||||||
| Brian Irby From Peace to War: The Formulation of the Idea of Crusade Central Arkansas Historical Review | |||||||||||||||
| Dr. Paul Magadalino The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade DeReMilitari.Org | |||||||||||||||