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Recueil des Historiens des Croisades- Instructions on downloading the RHC into PDF files. Contains the full text of each volume in the original Latin, Greek, Arabic, or Armenian. From the Bibliotheque Nationale-Gallica
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Pre-Crusades- Andrew of Fleury, Annalist of Neider Altaich, Gregory VII, John VIII, Leo IV, Letaldus of Micy, Ralph Glaber, William of Tyre, etc...
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First Crusade- Albert of Aix, Anna Comnena, Ekkehard of Aura, Fulcher of Chartres, Gesta Francorum, Guibert of Nogent, Usmah Ibn Munqidh, etc...
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Second Crusade- Bernard of Clairvaux, Conrad II, Eugenius III, Odo, Odo of Deuil, Osbernus, Otto of Freising, William of Tyre, etc...
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Third Crusade- Ansbert, Aymeric-Patriarch of Antioch, Duke of Lorrain, Ernoul-A Frank, Frederick I, Henry II, Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, Roger of Hoveden, Sibylla, William of Tyre, etc...
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Fourth Crusade- Geoffrey de Villehardouin, Gunther von Pairis, Innocent III, Nicetas Choniates, Robert de Clari, The History of the Holy War, The History of Them that Took Constantinople, etc...
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Fifth Crusade- Constitutions Regni Siciliae, Letter of Gerold-Patriarch of Jerusalem to All the Faithful, Innocent III, The Capture of Damietta, etc...
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Sixth Crusade- Guy-A Knight, Letter of the Master of the Hospitaliers at Jerusalem to Lord De Lemaye, Philip de Novare, Letter of Frederick II to Henry III, etc...
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Seventh Crusade- Al Makrisi- Essulouk li Mariset il Muluk, Jean de Joinville, Gregory bar Hebraeus,
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Eighth Crusade- Al Makrisi, Jamal ad Din Ibn Wasil, King Louis IX,
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Children's Crusade- Chronica Regiae Coloniensis Continuatio Prima, Alberic of Troisfontaines, Ogerius Panis, Gesta Treverorum, Chronicon Eberheimense, Annales Admuntenses, Marbach Annalist, etc...
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Albigensian Crusade- Annales-Against the Cathars, Book of John the Evangelist, Historia Albigensis, Song of the Cathar Wars, The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens, Traditio-Immersion in the Perfect Community, etc...
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Northern Crusades- The Rule and Statutes of the Teutonic Knights, The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, The Rhyme Chronicle of Livonia, etc...
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Italian Crusades- William of Apulia, Geoffrey of Malaterra, Alexander of Telese, Peter of Blois, Otto of St.Blasien, Richard of S. Germano, Marsiglio of Padua, Pope Boniface VIII, etc...
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Hussite Crusades- Levy of Troops for the War in Bohemia-1422, Battle Tactics of the Hussites, Joan of Arc, Letter to the Hussites, Conrad III, King Sigismund, Cardinal Branda, etc...
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Reconquista- Al Maggeri, Brother John of Monte Corvino, Chronicle of the Cid, Ibn Abd el Hakem, James I of Aragon, Lay of the Cid, Leyenda de Santiago, Osbernus, Siete Partidas, Song of William, Visigothic Code, etc...
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Knights Templars- Council of Vienne 1311-1312, Bulls of Clement V, Lament of the Templars, The Primitive Rule of the Templars, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hugh the Sinner, Ricaut Bonomel, etc...
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Other Crusading Orders- Teutonic Knights, Knights Hospitalliers, Knights of St. John, Knights of St. Lazarus, Livonian Brothers of the Sword, Order of Aviz, etc...
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Muslim Sources of the Crusading Movement- Usmah Ibn Munqidh, Al Makrisi, Ibn Abd el Hakem, Ibn al Athir, Imad al Din, Ibn al Qalanisi, Sibt Ibn al Jawzi, Ali Ibn Tahir Al Sulami, Al Maggari, etc...
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Byzantine Sources of the Crusading Movement- Anna Comnena, Nicetas Choniates, Nicolaus Mesarites, John Kinnamos, Theodore Ducas Anglelos,
Other Sources Related to the Crusades- Summa Theologica, Letters from and to the Holy Land, Letters about the Holy Land, Christine de Pisan's Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc, etc...
Primary Sources in Latin- Recueil des Historiens des Croisades-Occidentaux, Gesta Francorum, Guillelmus Tyrensis- Historia rerum gestarum in partibus transmarinis, Gregorius VII, etc...
Non-English Translations of Primary Sources- French, Old French, German, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew