Crusade Texts in Translation
About the Book Series
The crusading movement, which originated in the 11th century and lasted beyond the 16th, bequeathed to its future historians a legacy of sources which are unrivalled in their range and variety. These sources document in fascinating detail the motivations and viewpoints, military efforts and spiritual lives, of the participants in the crusades. They also narrate the internal histories of the states and societies which crusaders established or supported in the many regions where they fought. Some of these sources have been translated in the past but the vast majority have been available only in their original language. The goal of this series is to provide a wide ranging corpus of texts, most of them translated for the first time, which will illuminate the history of the crusades and the crusader-states from every angle, including that of their principal adversaries, the Muslim powers of the Middle East.
For further information about contributing to the series please contact Michael Greenwood at Routledge ([email protected])
Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades
1st Edition
By Martin Hall, Jonathan Phillips
September 30, 2020
This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical...
The Chronicle of Arnold of Lübeck
1st Edition
By Graham Loud
September 30, 2020
The chronicle of Arnold, Abbot of the monastery of St John of Lübeck, is one of the most important sources for the history of Germany in the central Middle Ages, and is also probably the major source for German involvement in the Crusades. The work was intended as a continuation of the earlier ...
Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Lock
August 25, 2020
This is the first full translation of Marino Sanudo Torsello's Secreta fidelium Crucis to be made into English. The work itself is a piece of crusading propaganda following the fall of Acre in 1291, written between 1300 and 1321, but it includes much of historical relevance along with interesting ...
The Chanson d'Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol Sweetenham
August 25, 2020
The Old-French Chanson d'Antioche has long intrigued historians and literary scholars. Unusually among epic poems, it follows closely a well documented historical event - the First Crusade - and appears to include substantial and genuine historical content. At one time it was believed to be based ...
Prester John: The Legend and its Sources
1st Edition
Edited
By Keagan Brewer
December 12, 2019
The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of texts setting out the many and various sources from which ...
The Chanson des Chétifs and Chanson de Jérusalem: Completing the Central Trilogy of the Old French Crusade Cycle
1st Edition
By Carol Sweetenham
August 14, 2018
The First Crusade was arguably one of the most significant events of the Middle Ages. It was the only event to generate its own epic cycle, the Old French Crusade Cycle. The central trilogy at the heart of the Cycle describes the Crusade from its beginnings to the climactic battle of Ascalon, ...
Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187–1291
1st Edition
By Denys Pringle
January 12, 2018
This book presents new translations of a selection of Latin and French pilgrimage texts - and two in Greek - relating to Jerusalem and the Holy Land between the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187 and the loss of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291. It therefore complements and extends existing studies, ...
The Old French Chronicle of Morea: An Account of Frankish Greece after the Fourth Crusade
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Van Arsdall, Helen Moody
October 23, 2017
Numerous Byzantine and Western sources describing the events of the Fourth Crusade have now been translated into English. However, the same is not true for material on Frankish Greece, despite this region’s importance to late medieval crusading. The Chronicle of Morea is the key source for the ...
The Gesta Tancredi of Ralph of Caen: A History of the Normans on the First Crusade
1st Edition
By Bernard S Bachrach, David S. Bachrach
September 19, 2016
This is the first translation into English of Ralph of Caen's Gesta Tancredi. This text provides an exceptionally important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, covering the period 1096-1105, but is often neglected, due in no small part to the difficulties of its Latin. A ...
The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon: A Translation of the Medieval Catalan Llibre dels Fets
1st Edition
Edited
By Damian J. Smith, Helena Buffery
April 21, 2016
The 'Book of Deeds' is the first known autobiography by a Christian king. Its author was James I of Aragon (1213-76), known as 'The Conqueror', one of the great political figures of 13th-century Europe and a successful crusader. In his 'Deeds', James describes the turbulent years of his minority, ...
Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem: Two volume PB set
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Edgington
June 19, 2013
Albert of Aachen’s History of the Journey to Jerusalem presents the story of the First Crusade (1095-1099) and the early history of the crusader states (1099-1119). Volume 1, The First Crusade, is a long and richly detailed account of events well known from the reports of participants, such as ...
Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem: Volume 1: Books 1–6. The First Crusade, 1095–1099
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Edgington
June 12, 2013
Albert of Aachen’s History of the Journey to Jerusalem presents the story of the First Crusade (1095-1099) and the early history of the crusader states (1099-1119). Volume 1, The First Crusade, is a long and richly detailed account of events well known from the reports of participants, such as ...