The full bibliography can be found in the notes, as can references to the texts under discussion. What follows merely sketches some salient secondary historiographical studies.
A. S. Atiya, The Crusades: Historiography and Bibliography (Oxford, 1962)
E. Barker, The Crusades (Oxford, 1923)
J. Burrow, A History of Histories (London, 2007)
G. Constable, ‘The Historiography of the Crusades’, in Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (Aldershot, 2008), pp. 3–43
S. Edgington and S. Lambert, eds, Gendering the Crusades (Cardiff, 2001)
C. Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (Edinburgh, 1999)
R. Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: Orientalists and their Enemies (London, 2006)
R. Irwin, ‘Orientalism and the Development of Crusader Studies’, in The Experience of Crusading, ii, Defining the Crusader Kingdom, ed. P. Edbury and J. Phillips (Cambridge, 2003)
D. Knowles, Great Historical Enterprises (London, 1963)
T. M. S. Lehtonen and K. V. Jensen, eds, Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology (Helsinki, 2005)
H. E. Mayer, ‘America and the Crusades’, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 125 (1981), 39–45
H. E. Mayer, The Crusades (Eng. trans. J. Gillingham, 2nd edn Oxford, 1988)
E. Peters, ‘The Firanj Are Coming – Again’, Orbis (Winter 2004) (online resource www.fpri.org/orbis/4801/peters.firanj.html)
J. Richard, ‘National Feeling and the Legacy of the Crusades’, in Palgrave Advances in the Crusades, ed. H. Nicholson (Basingstoke, 2005), pp. 204–22
J. Riley-Smith, The Crusades (2nd edn London, 2002)
J. Riley-Smith, ‘The Crusading Movement and the Historians’, in The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, ed. J. Riley-Smith (Oxford, 1995)
J. Riley-Smith, What Were the Crusades? (3rd edn Basingstoke, 2002)
C. Tyerman, God’s War: A New History of the Crusades (London, 2006)
C. Tyerman, The Invention of the Crusades (London, 1998)
N. Bisaha, Creating East and West (Philadelphia PA, 2004)
P. Edbury and J. G. Rowe, William of Tyre: Historian of the Latin East (Cambridge, 1988)
R. Hiestand, ‘Il cronista medieval e il suo pubblico’, Annali della facolta di lettere e filosofia dell’università di Napoli, 27 (n.s. 15 1984–85), 207–27
B. Z. Kedar, Crusade and Mission (Princeton NJ, 1984)
A. Leopold, How to Recover the Holy Land (Aldershot, 2000)
E. Siberry, Criticism of Crusading (Oxford, 1985)
P. Throop, Criticism of the Crusades (Amsterdam, 1940)
[Much historiographical material and commentary may be found in the introductions to the various primary sources for the medieval crusades.]
N. Edelman, Attitudes of Seventeenth Century France towards the Middle Ages (New York NY, 1946)
L. Gossman, Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment (Baltimore MD, 1968)
A. Grafton, What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2007)
M. J. Heath, Crusading Commonplaces (Geneva, 1986)
J. G. A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion (Cambridge, 1999–2005)
J. R. Dakyns, The Middle Ages in French Literature 1851–1900 (Oxford, 1973)
H. Dehéran, ‘Les origines du Recueil des historiens des croisades’, Journal des Savants, n.s. 17 (1919), 260–6
G. P. Gooch, History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1913; 2nd edn. 1952)
K. L. Morris, The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature (London, 1984)
K. Munholland, ‘Michaud’s History of the Crusades and the French Crusade in Algeria under Louis Philippe’, The Popularization of Images: Visual Culture under the July Monarchy, ed. P. Ten-Doesschate Chu and G. P. Weisburg (Princeton, NJ, 1994), pp. 144–65
E. Siberry, The New Crusaders (Aldershot, 2000)
T. S. R. Boase, ‘Recent Developments in Crusading Historiography’, History, 22 (1937), 110–25
J. Brundage, ‘Recent Crusading Historiography’, Catholic Historical Review, 49 (1964), 493–507
R. Ellenblum, Crusader Castles and Modern Histories (Cambridge, 2007)
N. Housley, Contesting the Crusades (Oxford, 2006)
A. Jotischky, Crusading and the Crusader States (London, 2004)
J. L. La Monte, ‘Some Problems in Crusading Historiography’, Speculum, 15 (1940), 56–75
A. Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (London, 1984)
J. Prawer et al. ‘The Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem: The First European Colonial Society?: A Symposium’, in Horns of Hattin, ed. B. Z. Kedar (Jerusalem, 1992), pp. 341–66
D. Queller, ‘Review Article: On the Completion of A History of the Crusades’, International History Review, 13 (1991), 314–30
J. Riley-Smith, ‘Erdmann and the Historiography of the Crusades 1935–95’, in La primera cruzada, ed. L. Garcia-Guijarro Ramos (Madrid, 1997), pp. 17–29
E. Sivan, ‘Modern Arab Historiography of the Crusades’, Asian and African Studies, 8 (1972), 109–49