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Atiya, Aziz. The Crusade: Historiography and Bibliography. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1976, c1962.                    Aziz'z work is one of the better known crusades historiographical work, although its focus is primarily              bibliographical, it provides a nice overview of primary sources and their accessibility. Boase, T.S.R. "Recent Developments in Crusading Historiography." History n.s. XXII- 1937, 110-125. Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. 2nd Ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago               Press, 1983.               Although this work devotes less than ten pages to crusades historiography, it provides valuable               information on a number of medieval topics related to the crusades. See pages 118-19, 123-124, 132-               37, 239. Brundage, James.Ed. The Crusades: Motives and Achievements. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1964.               This edited volume from James Brundage provides selections from the works of historians dating               back to the seventeenth century that demonstrate their often conflicting opinions of the motivations               and achievements of the crusaders. Constable, Giles. “The Historiography of the Crusades.” The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the                Muslim World. Ed. by Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh. Washington DC: Dumbarton                Oaks, 2001, 1-22. Holt, Andrew. “Crusades Historiography.” Handbook of Medieval Studies: Concepts, Methods, and Trends in               Medieval Studies. Ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin: de Gruyter [forthcoming]. Kedar, Benjamin Z. "Crusades Historians and the Massacres of 1096." Jewish History, 12:2 (1998), 11-31. Krey, August C.  "Introduction [to Crusades Sources]" In The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and               Participants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1921. Krey, August C. "William of Tyre: The Making of an Historian in the Middle Ages," Speculum 16 (1941), 149-              166. LaMonte, J.L. "Some Problems of Crusading Historiography." Speculum 15 (1940), 57-75. Madden, Thomas. The Crusades: The Essential Readings. Ed. Thomas Madden. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.            This iedited provides a useful introduction and examination of the various trends in crusades            historiography. Dr. Madden's brief introductions do a nice job of highlighting areas of dispute            among crusades historians. Mayer, Hans E. Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Kreuzzüge. 2d ed. Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1965. (1st             ed. 1960). Mclellan, J. and H.W. Hazard. "Select Bibliography of the Crusades," In A History of the Crusades (ed. in chief            Kenneth M. Setton), Vol 6. Edited by H.W. Hazard and N.P. Zancour. 511-664. Madison WI: University            of Wisconsin Press, 1989. Riley-Smith, Jonathan. “The Crusading Movement and Historians.” The Oxford History of the Crusades. Ed. by            Jonathan Riley-Smith Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 1-15. One of the two best recent articles on            crusades historiography. Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979.            Although not a work on the crusades, the work references the crusades in several places and Said's            claim of bias by western scholars of the Middle East is clearly relevent to the study of crusades            historiography. Siberry, Elizabeth. The New Crusaders: Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.           Ashgate: Aldershot, Burlington USA, Singapore and Sydney, 2000. Sivan, E. Modern Arab Historiography of the Crusades. Tel Aviv, 1973.