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ABU ’L-MUZAFFAR AL-ABIWARDI. Poem on the loss of Jerusalem, 1099, from Francesco Gabrieli, Arab Historians of the Crusades (Routledge, 1969). Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd.
ALBERT OF AACHEN. Extracts from History of Jerusalem, from Historia Hierosolymitana, in Recueil des historiens des croisades: historiens occidentaux, iv (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Paris, 1879), translated by Henry Maas. Copyright © The Folio Society Ltd 2004.
_____ Extracts from History of Jerusalem, from August C. Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eye Witnesses and Participants (Princeton University Press, 1921).
ALI IBN TAHIR AL-SULAMI. Extract from Kitab al-Jihad calling for a jihad, 1105, following the fall of Jerusalem, from P. M. Holt, The Age of the Crusades (Longman, 1986). Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Ltd.
ANNA COMNENA. Extracts from The Alexiad of Anna Comnena, translated by E. R. A. Sewter (Penguin Classics, 1969). Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
ANONYMOUS. Charter recording Nivello’s donation to the abbey of St Peter of Chartres, 1096, from Louise Riley-Smith and Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Crusades: Idea and Reality 1095–1274 (Edward Arnold, 1981). Reprinted by permission of the authors.
_____ Extracts from Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum: The Deeds of the Franks and the Other Pilgrims to Jerusalem, edited and translated by Rosalind Hill (1962), reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.
_____Letter to North Africa or Spain, 1100, from Shlomo D. Goitein, ‘Contemporary Letters on the Capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders’, Journal of Jewish Studies, iii (1952), pp. 162–77. Reprinted by permission of the Journal of Jewish Studies, Oxford.
_____Letter to relatives, c.1100, from Shlomo D. Goitein, ‘Tyre–Tripoli–‘Arqa: Geniza Documents from the Beginning of the Crusader Period’, Jewish Quarterly Review, lxvi (1975), pp. 69–88. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pennsylvania Press.
_____‘The Narrative of the Old Persecutions’ (or ‘Mainz Anonymous’), from Shlomo Eidelberg (ed. and trans.), The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades (University of Wisconsin Press, 1977). Reprinted by permission of the estate of Shlomo Eidelberg.
_____‘Nomen a Solemnibus’, from E. Peters (ed.), The First Crusade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998). Reprinted by permission of the University of Pennsylvania Press.
ANSELM OF RIBEMONT. Letters to Manasses II of Rheims, from Dana C. Munro (ed. and trans.), Letters of the Crusaders (Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1894).
BOHEMUND AND THE LEADERS OF THE CRUSADE. Letter to Urban II, 11 September 1098, from Fulcher of Chartres, A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem 1095–1127, translated by Frances Rita Ryan and edited by Harold S. Fink (University of Tennessee Press, 1969). Copyright © 1969 by the University of Tennessee Press. Reprinted by permission of the University of Tennessee Press.
FULCHER OF CHARTRES. Extracts from Fulcher of Chartres, A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem 1095–1127, translated by Frances Rita Ryan and edited by Harold S. Fink (University of Tennessee Press, 1969). Copyright © 1969 by the University of Tennessee Press. Reprinted by permission of the University of Tennessee Press.
FULK RECHIN. Account of Urban II’s visit, February 1096, from E. Peters (ed.), The First Crusade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998). Reprinted by permission of the University of Pennsylvania Press.
GODFREY OF BOUILLON ET AL. Letter to Paschal II, September 1099, from Dana C. Munro (ed. and trans.), Letters of the Crusaders (Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1894).
GUIBERT OF NOGENT. Extracts from Book II of The Deeds of God through the Franks, from Robert Levine (trans.), The Deeds of God through the Franks (Boydell Press, 1997). Reprinted by permission of Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
IBN AL-QALANASI. Extracts from The Damascus Chronicle, from H. A. R. Gibb (trans.), The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades, University of London Historical Series, no. v (Luzac & Co, 1932).
JEWISH COMMUNITY OF CAIRO. Letter to the community of Ascalon, soon after the fall of Jerusalem, July 1099, from Shlomo D. Goitein, ‘Geniza Sources for the Crusader Period’, in B. Kedar, H. Mayer and R. Smail (eds), Outremer (Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, 1982). Reprinted by permission of Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi.
LEADERS OF THE ASCALON COMMUNITY. Letter to the Jewish community in Alexandria or Cairo, summer 1100, from Shlomo D. Goitein, ‘Contemporary Letters on the Capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders’, Journal of Jewish Studies, iii (1952), pp. 162–77. Reprinted by permission of the Journal of Jewish Studies, Oxford.
MANASSES II OF RHEIMS. Letter to Lambert of Arras, 1099, from August C. Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eye Witnesses and Participants (Princeton University Press, 1921).
PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM. Letter to the Church in the west, January 1098, from August C. Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eye Witnesses and Participants (Princeton University Press, 1921).
PEOPLE OF LUCCA ON CRUSADE. Letter to all faithful Christians, October 1098, from August C. Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eye Witnesses and Participants (Princeton University Press, 1921).
RAYMOND OF AGUILERS. Extracts from The History of the Frankish Conquerors of Jerusalem, from John Hugh Hill and Laurita L. Hill (trans.), Historia Francorum qui Ceperunt Iherusalem (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, volume 71, 1968). Reprinted by permission of the American Philosophical Society.
ROBERT OF RHEIMS. Extract from Historia Hierosolymitana, reporting Urban II’s speech at Clermont, 27 November 1095, from Dana C. Munro (ed. and trans.), Urban and the Crusaders (Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1894).
STEPHEN OF BLOIS. Letter to his wife Adela, 29 March 1098, from Dana C. Munro (ed.), Letters of the Crusaders (Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1894).
URBAN II. Letters to the monks of Vallombrosa, 7 October 1096, and to the counts of Besalú et al., c. January 1096–July 1099, from Louise Riley-Smith and Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Crusades: Idea and Reality 1095–1274 (Edward Arnold, 1981). Reprinted by permission of the authors.
_____Letter to the faithful in Flanders, December 1095, from August C. Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eye Witnesses and Participants (Princeton University Press, 1921).
_____Letter to his supporters in Bologna, September 1096, from E. Peters (ed.), The First Crusade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998). Reprinted by permission of the University of Pennsylvania Press.