This page is not intended as an exhaustive summary of the scholarship concerning the Latin East, but a guide to general resources.
Digital Resources and Digital Humanities Projects
- Revised Regesta Regni Hierosolymitani Database (Hebrew University) A revised, updated, and translated online searchable version of Reinhold Röhricht’s two volume register (1893-1904). Complete with extensive bibliography and glossary. Indispensable.
- The French of Outremer Project (Fordham University) An online catalogue of all texts written in French in the eastern Mediterranean in the crusading period. Includes a selection of essays about different source types and themes emerging from the study of these sources.
- Online Medieval Sources Bibliography (Fordham University) An online searchable database of medieval texts providing short descriptions and bibliographical information. Updated continuously.
- Database of Crusaders to the Holy Land, 1095-1149 (Leeds University) An online searchable database of individual crusaders, including information on origins, family connections, likelihood of their participation and outcomes of their crusade.
- Oxford Outremer Map Project (Fordham University) Digital restoration of a thirteenth century map of the crusader states drawn by the English Monk Matthew Paris.
- Troubadours, Trouvères, and the Crusades (University of Warwick) A database of all crusading songs in Old French and Occitan.. Full text of the songs is provided., and in many cases also translations and commentary.
General Resources
- Malcolm Barber, The Crusader States (New Haven, 2012)
- Hans Eberhard Mayer, Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Kreuzzüge (Hanover, 1960)
- Jean Richard, Le royaume Latin de Jérusalem (Paris, 1953) tr. Janet Shirley as The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Amsterdam, 1978)
- Reinhold Rohricht, Geschichte des königreichs Jerusalem (1100-1291) (Innsbruck, 1898) [at internet archive]
- Crusades: the Journal of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (Aldershot, 2002-)
- Archives de l’Orient Latin and Revue de l’Orient Latin
- Charles Warren and Claude Conder, Topographie historique de la Syrie antique et médiévale (Paris, 1927)
- The Survey of Western Palestine (London, 1884)
- Recueil des historiens des croisades: Lois, Historiens Occidentaux, Historiens Orientaux, Historiens Grecs. Documents Arméniens [at Gallica]
Narrative Sources
William of Tyre's "Chronicle", Continuations, and Associated Texts
Other Narratives
- William of Tyre, Chronicon, ed. R.B.C. Huygens, 2 vols (Turnhout, 1986), tr. as A History of the Deeds Done Beyond the Sea, tr. Emily Atwater Babcock and A.C. Krey, 2 vols (New York, 1943) [The Latin text of William of Tyre]
- [Estoire d'Eracles l'Empereur (Eracles)] Guillaume de Tyr et ses continuateurs: texte français du XIII siècle, ed. Paulin Paris (Paris, 1879). For which see Philip Handyside, The Old French William of Tyre (Leiden: Brill, 2015) [The Old French translation of William of Tyre]
- [Lyon Eracles] La continuation de Guillaume de Tyr (1184-1197), ed. Margaret Ruth Morgan (Paris, 1982) tr. Peter Edbury as The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade. Sources in Translation (Farnborough, 1996) [A thirteenth-century account from the East]
- [Continuations of William of Tyre] L'Estoire de Eracles empereur et la conqueste de la terre d'Outremer, Recueil des Historians des Croisades, Historiens Occidentaux, II (Paris, 1859), tr. as Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century: the Rothelin Continuation of William of Tyre with Part of the Eracles or Acre Text, tr. Janet Shirley (Farnborough, 1999) [Thirteenth-Century accounts from France and the East]
- Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Tresorier, ed Louis de Mas Latrie (Paris, 1871) [AKA "Ernoul-Bernard", containing what is arguably the earliest version of the prose French narrative of Ernoul, a person often identified as the squire of Balian of Ibelin.
- Les Gestes des Chiprois: recueil des chroniques français écrites en orient aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles, ed. Gaston Raynaud (Geneva, 1887)
- Cronaca del Templare di Tiro (1243-1314), ed. Laura Minervini, Naples, 2000, tr. Paul Crawford as The Templar of Tyre. Part III of the "Deeds of the Cypriots (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003)
- Filippo da Novara, Guerra di Federico II in Oriente (1223-1242), ed. S. Melani, (Naples, 1994), tr. John la Monte as Philip of Novara, The Wars of Frederick II Against the Ibelins in Syria and Cyprus (New York, 1936)
Other Narratives
- K.S. Salibi, Maronite Historians of Medieval Lebanon (Beirut, 1957)
- Recueil des historiens des croisades: historiens occidentaux (vols. 1,2,3,4,5)
- ______________________________________: historiens orientaux (vols. 1, 2,1, 2.2, 3, 4, 5)
- ______________________________________: historiens grecs (vols. 1, 2)
Legal Texts
- Assises d'Antioche, reproduites en françois et publiées au sixième centénaire de la mort de Sempad le Connétable, leur ancien traducteur arménien, ed. and tr. L. M. Alishan (Venice, 1876)
- Assises de la cour des bourgeois, ed. A.-A. Beugnot in Recueil des historiens des croisades, vol. 2: Lois (Paris, 1843; repr. Farnborough: Gregg Press, 1967)
- [Assises de Romanie] Les Assises de Romanie, ed. Georges Recoura (Paris: H. Champion, 1930), tr. Peter W. Topping as Feudal Institutions as Revealed in the Assizes of Romania: The Law Code of Frankish Greece; Translation of the Text of the Assizes with a Commentary on Feudal Institutions in Greece and Medieval Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949)
- Livre au roi, ed. Mirian Greilshammer, Documents relatifs à l'histoire des croisades, 17 (Paris: Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1995)
- John of Ibelin, Le Livre des assises, ed. Peter Edbury (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003)
- Philip of Novara, Livre de forme de plait, ed.and tr. Peter W. Edbury (Nicosia: Cyprus Research Centre, Series- Texts and Studies in the History of Cyprus, 2009)
Documentary Sources
Charters of the Latin East
Documents relating to Mediterranean trade:
Miscellaneous
- Genevieve Bresc-Bautier, Le Cartulaire du chapitre du Saint-Sepulcre de Jérusalem (Paris, 1984) [at NYPL and Columbia]
- Cartulaire de Notre Dame de Josapahat, ed. Charles Métais (2 vols., Chartres, 1911-2) [Gallica: vol 1] [Gallica: vol 2]
- Chartes de Terre Sainte provenant de l'abbaye de Notre Dame de Josaphat, ed. H.-François Delaborde (Paris, 1880) [Gallica]
- Charles Kohler, "Chartes de l'abbaye de Notre-Dame de la Vallée de Josaphat," in Revue de l'Orient Latin 7 ( [archive.org]
- Cartulaire générale de l’ordre du Temple, ed. G.A.M.J.A. d’Albon (Paris, 1913) [Gallica]
- Carulaire générale de l’Ordre des Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem, ed. Joseph Delaville le Roulx (4 vols., Paris, 1894-1906) +CR4723 .D4 Folio oversize books (4th Floor)
- Urkunden der lateinischen Könige von Jerusalem, ed. Hans Eberhard Mayer (3 vols. Hanover, 2010) D176.U75
- Regesta regni Hierosolimitani, 1097-1291, ed. Reinhold Rohricht, (New York, 1960) D182.R6
- Tabula ordinis theutonici: ex tabularii Berolinensis codice potissimum, ed. Ernst Strehlke (Berlin, 1869) [online at Bayerische StaatsBibliothek digital] repr. with notes and introduction by Hans Mayer in 1975
Documents relating to Mediterranean trade:
- Codice diplomatico della repubblica di Genova, ed. C. Imperiale di Sant- Angelo (3 vols., Rome, 1936-1942) DG403 .F7 NO.77
- Documenti sulle relazioni delle città toscane voll’Oriente Cristiano e coi Turchi fino all’anno 1531, ed. Giuseppe Müller (Florence, 1879) [Google]
- Louis Méry and F. Guindon, Histoire analytique et chronologique des actes et des deliberations… de la municipalité de Marseille (2 vols., Marseilles, 1841-1843) [Google]
- Mattea Camera, Memorie storico-diplomatische dell’ antica città e ducato di Amalfi (2 vols., Naples, 1876-1881, repr. Salerno, 1972) [Google]
- Il Cartolare di Giovanni Scriba, ed. Mario Chiaudano and Mattia Moresco (2 vols., Turin, 1935, repr. Turin, 1970) [ILL]
- Liber magistri Salmonis, sacri palatii notarii 1222-1226, ed. Arturo Ferreto (Genoa, 1906) [ILL]
- Cornelio Desimoni, “Acres passes en 1271, 1274, et 1279 a l’Àias…. et à Beyrouth par devant des notaires génois’, AOL, I (1881), 434-534 D151.A7
- Documenti del commercio veneziano nei secoli xi-xiii, ed. Raimondo Morozzo della Rocca and Antonino Lombardo (2 vols., Rome and Turin, 1940) DG677.6 .M6
- Nuovi documenti del commercio Veneto dei secoli xi-xiii, Antonino Lombardi and Raimondo Morozzo dell Rocca (Venice, 1953) [ILL]
- Documents inédits sur le commerce de Marseille au moyen âge, ed. Louis Blancard (2 vols., Marseilles, 1884-1885) [Gallica]
- Mayer, Marseilles Levantehandel und ein akkonensisches Fälscheratelier (Tübingen, 1972) [at Columbia and NYPL]
- Cartolari notarii genovesi (Archivo di stato, Rome, 1956, 1961)
Miscellaneous
- Malcolm Barber and Keith Bate, The Templars: Selected Sources (Manchester, 2002) CR4735 .T46 2002
- Malcolm Barber and Keith Bate, Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims, and Settlers, in the 12th-13th Centuries (Burlington, VT, 2010) D176 .L47 2010
Art, Architecture, and Archeology
- Adrian Boas, Crusader Archaeology: the Material Culture of the Latin East (London: Routledge, 1999)
- _____________, Domestic Settings: Sources on Domestic Architecture and Day-to-Day Activities in the Crusader States (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010)
- Jaroslav Folda, The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 (Cambridge, 1995) N6300 .F656 2008
- _______________, Crusader Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291 (Cambridge, 2005) N6300 .F655
- _______________ , Crusader Art: the Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1099-1291 (Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT, 2008) N6300 .F656
- Denys Pringle, Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: an Archaeological Gazetteer (Cambridge, 1997) +D183.P75
- Silvia Rosenberg, Knights of the Holy Land: the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 1999) +D177.K65
Resources for the Old French Legal Texts
Scholarship
Dictionaries
Law Reference Dictionaries
Dictionaries of Old French
Works for Comparison
The Customa d’Agen: a Thirteenth Century Customary Compilation in Occitan Transcribed from the Livre Juratoire, tr. F.R.P. Akehurst (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010)
Usatges de Barcelona
- Baker, John H. An Introduction to English Legal History. (4th ed. London: Butterworths, 2002).
- Beaune, Henri. Introduction a l'étude historique du droit coutumier français (Lyon and Paris, 1880)
- Bishop, Adam. "Criminal Law and the Development of the Assizes of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century"
- Hagger, Mark. "Secular Law and Custom in Ducal Normandy 1000-1144". Speculum 85:4 (2010), 827-867.
- Hudson, John. The Formation of the English Common Law: Law and Society in England from the Norman Conquest to Magna Carta. (London: Longman, 1996).
- Hyams, Paul. Kings, Lords, and Peasants in Medieval England: the Common Law of Villeinage in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (Oxford: Clarendon, 1980).
- Kuskowski, Ada, "Lingua Franca Legalis? A French Vernacular Legal Culture Between England and the Levant," Law's Dominion: Medieval Studies for Paul Hyams, ed. Carolina Escobar-Vargas, Reading Medieval Studies 40 (2014), 140-158.
- Reynolds, Susan. Fiefs and Vassals: the Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). And see some of the many reviews, including the two curated here.
Dictionaries
Law Reference Dictionaries
- The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, ed. Stanley N. Katz (Oxford, 2009)
- Black’s Law Dictionary, ed. Bryan A. Garner (St Paul, MN: Thomson Reuters, 2014)
Dictionaries of Old French
- Analyse et traitement informatique de la langue française
- Godefroy, Frédéric. Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française (10 vols., Paris, 1927-8)
- Old French-English Dictionary, ed. Alan Hindley, Frederick W. Langley, Brian J. Levy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
- The Anglo-Norman Dictionary Online
Works for Comparison
- The Coutumes de Beauvaisis of Philippe de Beaumanoir, tr. with an introduction by F.R.P. Akehurst (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992)
The Customa d’Agen: a Thirteenth Century Customary Compilation in Occitan Transcribed from the Livre Juratoire, tr. F.R.P. Akehurst (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010)
- Manuscript of the town of Agen at LINK
Usatges de Barcelona
Maps
- Map of the Crusader States, from Medieval Europe Online
- Political Map of the Crusader States, from The Atlas of the Crusades
Map of the Latin Empire of Constantinople and the principalities of Latin Greece
Resources for Podcasting
Instructional guides for podcasting:
Lifehacker, a good one for using Audacity
Digital Trends
Possible models for podcasts
The Ottoman History Podcast (high quality and long-running podcast about historical scholarship related to the Ottoman Empire)
Tape Radio (a podcast about podcasting)
The American Interest (podcast contributed by Bard College history professor Richard Aldous)
Footnoting History (a wide-ranging historical podcast started by History grad students at Fordham)
Lifehacker, a good one for using Audacity
Digital Trends
Possible models for podcasts
The Ottoman History Podcast (high quality and long-running podcast about historical scholarship related to the Ottoman Empire)
Tape Radio (a podcast about podcasting)
The American Interest (podcast contributed by Bard College history professor Richard Aldous)
Footnoting History (a wide-ranging historical podcast started by History grad students at Fordham)