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The age of the crusades

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Author: James M. Ludlow

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James M. Ludlow’s The Age of the Crusades is a scholarly survey that begins with a detailed, chapter‑by‑chapter outline of the later crusades, notably the Seventh and Eighth, before moving into an extensive bibliography of primary sources. The opening pages list the deeds of Saint Louis, the battles of Damietta and Mansourah, and the political fallout of the Crusader states, then segue into a systematic catalog of chronicles, letters, and later histories that have shaped our understanding of the period. This structure signals a work that is as much a reference guide as a narrative, offering readers a roadmap to the complex tapestry of medieval warfare, diplomacy, and religious fervor.

Written in the late‑19th‑century academic style, Ludlow’s prose is formal, densely packed with dates, names, and citations, reflecting the historiographical conventions of his era. It will appeal to students of medieval history, serious amateur scholars, and anyone who enjoys a thorough, source‑driven exploration of the Crusades rather than a romanticized retelling.

Who appears in The age of the crusades

St. LouisShort, bearded French king in 13th‑century royal robes, gilt crown, chain of the Order of the Star
Innocent IVElderly pope wearing white papal vestments, papal tiara, bald head, solemn expression
Sultana Chegger‑EddourElegant Muslim queen in flowing silk veil, jeweled headdress, richly embroidered mantle, regal bearing

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JACOBUS BONGARSIUS: Gesta Dei per Francos, sive orientalium expeditionum, et regni Francorum Hierosolimitani historia (ab a. 1095 ad 1420) a variis, sed illius ævi scriptoribus, litteris commendata; Hanoviæ [Hanau], 1611, fol.

MARTIN BOUQUET: Rerum Gallicarum et Francicarum scriptores. Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France; Paris, 1738-1876, 23 vols.

FRANÇOIS PIERRE GUILLAUME GUIZOT: Collection des mémoires relatifs à l’histoire de France depuis la fondation de la monarchie française jusqu’au 13. siècle; Paris, 1823-35, 31 vols., 8vo.

JACQUES PAUL MIGNE: I., Patrologiæ Latinæ, tom. i.-ccxxi.

JACQUES PAUL MIGNE: II., Patrologiæ Græcæ, tom. i.-clxi.

JACQUES PAUL MIGNE: III., Patrologiæ Græcæ Latine tantum editæ, tom. i.-lxxxi.

Recueil des historiens des croisades, publié par les soins de l’Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres; Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1841 sqq.; vol. xv., 1895.

PAUL E. D. RIANT: Expéditions et pèlerinages des Scandinaves en Terre-Sainte au temps des croisades; Paris, Imprimerie Lainé et Havard, 1865-69, 2 vols. ( vol. ii. being tables).

PAUL E. D. RIANT: Inventaire critique des lettres historiques des croisades, ... 786-1100; Paris, 1880 (in Archives de l’Orient latin, vol. i.; Paris, 1881).

II. THE PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF THE HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES.

A. Chronicles of Eye-witnesses.

ALBERT OF AIX (Albertus Aquensis): Historia Hierosolymitana. A.D. 1095-1121 (in Recueil. Hist. occid., iv., pp. 265-713; and in Migne, Pat. Lat., clxvi., col. 389-716. French translation in Guizot, Collection, xx., xxi.).

BALDRIC, Archbishop of Dol (Baldricus Andegavensis, later archiepiscopus Dolensis): Historiæ Hierosolymitanæ libri iv. A.D. 1095-99 (in Recueil. Hist. occid., iv., pp. 1-111; and in Migne, Pat. Lat., clxvi., col. 1057-1152).

ANNA COMNENA: Alexiadis libri xv. A.D. 1069-1118 (in Recueilt] Histor. grecs, i., 2, pp. 65-179; and in Migne [Greek tex. and Latin translation], Pat. Græc. cxxxi., col. 79-1212. Latin translation also in Migne, Pat. Græc. Lat., lxviii., col. 903-1516).

EKKEHARD OF URACH (Ekkehardus Uraugiensis): Hierosolymita. A.D. 1095-1187 (in Recueil. Hist. occid., v., pp. 1-40; and in Migne, Pat. Lat., cliv., col. 1059-62).

FOULCHER OF CHARTRES (Fulcherius Carnotensis): Gesta Francorum Jherusalem peregrinantium. A.D. 1095-1127 (in Recueil. Hist. occid., iii., pp. 311-485; and in Migne, Pat. Lat., clv., col. 825-940. French translation in Guizot, Collection, xxiv., pp. 1-275).

GILO: Historia gestorum viæ nostri temporis Hierosolymitanæ libri iv. A.D. 1095-99 (in Migne, Pat. Lat., clv., col. 943-994).

GUIBERT OF NOGENT (Guibertus, abbas monast. s. Mariæ Novigenti): Historia Hierosolymitana quæ dicitur Gesta Dei per Francos, libri viii. A.D. 1095-1110 (in Recueil. Hist. occid., iv., pp. 115-263; also in Migne, Pat. Lat., clvi., col. 679-838. French translation in Guizot, Collection, ix., pp. 1-338).

PRINCE DE JOINVILLE: Histoire de Saint Louys, IX. du nom, roy de France (in Bouquet, xx., pp. 191-304. Numerous other editions, e.g., Wailly, with translation in modern French; Paris, Didot, 1874. English translation in Bohn’s Antiquarian Library, Chronicles of the Crusades).

RAYMOND OF AGILES (Raimundus de Agiles): Historia Francorum qui ceperunt Hierusalem a. 1095 ad 1099 (in Recueil. Hist. occid., iii., pp. 235-309; and in Migne, Pat. Lat., clv., col. 591-668. French translation in Guizot, Collection, xxi., pp. 227-397).

TUDEBOD (Tudebodus): Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere ab a. 1095 ad 1099, libri v. (in Recueil. Hist. occid., iii., pp. 1-117; and in Migne, Pat. Lat., clv., col. 763-823. French translation, Mémoires de l’historien Pierre Tudebode sur son pèlerinage à Jérusalem; Paris, Champion, 1878).

VILLEHARDOUIN: Histoire de l’empire de Constantinople sous les empereurs françois (in Bouquet, xviii., pp. 432-514. With modern French translation, Paris, Lemerre, 1891, 2 vols. English translation, London, 1829).

WILLIAM OF TYRE (Guilelmus Tyrius): Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum. A.D. 1095-1184 (in Recueil. Hist. occid., i.; and in Migne, Pat. Lat., cci., col. 209-892. English translation by Mary Noyes Colvin; London, Early English Text Society, 1893).

B. Letters of the Crusaders.

ANSELM OF RIPEMONT (Anselmus de Ribodimonte): Epistolæ ad Manassem archiepiscopum Remensem duæ. A.D. 1098 (in Recueil. Hist. occid., iii., pp. 890-893).

ALEXIUS I., COMNENUS: Epistola ad Robertum I., Flandriæ comitem. A.D. 1098 (in Recueil. Histor. grecs, iv., p. 132; and in Migne, Pat. Græc., cxxxi., col. 564-568; Pat. Lat., clv., col. 465-470. German translation by H. Floto, Kaiser Heinrich IV., vol. ii., p. 354; Stuttgart, 1854).

GODFREY (Godefridus Bullonius): Epistolæ et diplomata (in Migne, Pat. Lat., clv., col. 389-398).

STEPHEN OF BLOIS (Stephanus Carnotensis et Blesensis) to his wife: Epistolæ duæ (in Recueil. Hist. occid., iii., pp. 883-893).

URBAN II.: Epistolæ (in Migne, Pat. Lat., cli., col. 283-552).

C. Contemporary and Very Early Writers.

MATTHEW PARIS: English History from 1253 to 1273 (translation in Bohn’s Antiquarian Library; London, Bell; New York, Macmillan).

ROGER OF HOVENDEN: Chronica; edited by William Stubbs (in Rerum Britannicarum medii ævi Scriptores [see under Stubbs, p. viii.], No. 51, vols. i.-iv., 1868-71).

ROGER OF WENDOVER: Flowers of History (in Bohn’s Antiquarian Library; London, Bell; New York, Macmillan).

WILLIBALD, The Travels of, A.D. 721-727 (in Bohn’s Antiquarian Library [London, Bell; New York, Macmillan], in the vol. edited by Thomas Wright, Early Travels in Palestine, pp. 13-22).

III. WORKS ON THE CRUSADES WRITTEN FROM THE SOURCES.

T. A. ARCHER and CHARLES L. KINGSFORD: The Crusades: The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem; New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895.

GEORGE WILLIAM COX: The Crusades; London, Longmans; New York, Scribner, 1874.

HEINRICH HAGENMEYER: Peter der Eremite: ein kritischer Beitrag zur Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges; Leipzig, Harrassowitz, 1879.

ARNOLD HERMANN LUDWIG HEEREN: Historische Werke; Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1821-26, 14 parts.

ARNOLD HERMANN LUDWIG HEEREN: Essai sur l’influence des croisades; French translation, Paris, 1808.

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