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Welcome to the Crusades task force, a joint venture of the Middle Ages and Military history WikiProjects. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. Mind that you do not need any kind of approval to edit an article. Important for edits in the first place is that they are balanced and neutral or bring (more) balance or (more) neutrality in an article, and edits must be verifiable from reliable sources. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. This task force aims to cover aspects of the military expeditions initiated and organised by the Roman-Catholic church in the early Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East, labeled from some 100 years afterwards on as Crusades. [1] The task force covers the Crusader states in the Middle East, crusades against what the Roman-Catholic church saw as heretics and pagans in Europe, the military operation of the Roman-Catholic church and it's allies coined "Reconquista" in Iberia, and crusades against the Ottomans in the Later Middle Ages, as well as Muslim, Eastern Christian, Jewish, and other societies affected by the crusades. The task force tries to go beyond purely military matters, to social, administrative, legal, art, religious, and literary history, and modern historiography of the period. However at the moment not much knowledge or interest exists on these matters within the task force, so the task force welcomes editors who could contribute in these fields, to join. Hopefully in the future, due to edits of Wikipedians all over the world, articles also will contain information about the way crusades, crusaders and crusade-thinking affected societies in other ways than military gain and loss and tells the story from all possible perspectives, not mainly that of the Roman-Catholic narrative. The people in this task force would like to have any article related to the topics mentioned, be marked by adding the following to the project banners at the top of its talk page
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Featured article reviews
Good article reassessments
The following resources may be useful when developing articles:
Primary Sources | |
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First Crusade | |
Guibert of Nogent | The Deeds of God Through the Franks |
Fulcher of Chartres | Historia Hierosolymitana, 1096-1127 (Latin) |
Anna Comnena | Alexiad |
Anonymous | Gesta Francorum (Latin) |
Anonymous | Anonymi Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum (ed. Heinrich Hagenmeyer) |
Various | Epistulae et chartae ad historiam primi belli sacri spectantes (ed. Heinrich Hagenmeyer) |
Various | The first crusade; the accounts of eye-witnesses and participants (ed. August C. Krey) |
Radulfus Cadomensis | Gesta Tancredi (Latin) |
Second Crusade | |
Otto Frisingensis | Gesta Friderici (Latin) |
Various | Letters concerning the Second Crusade (doc) |
Third Crusade | |
Anonymous | Itinerary of Richard I and others to the Holy Land (pdf) |
Ralph of Coggeshall (attributed) | De Expugnatione Terra Sanctae per Saladinum (doc) |
Fourth Crusade | |
Geoffrey of Villehardouin | The Conquest of Constantinople |
Jean de Joinville | Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville |
Guntherus Cistercensis Monachus | Historia Captae A Latinis Constantinopoleos (Latin) (doc) |
Various | The Fourth Crusade: Selected Texts (doc) |
Pope Innocent III | Letters of Pope Innocent III concerning the Fourth Crusade (doc) |
Reconquista | |
Caffaro di Rustico | The Capture of Almeria and Tortosa (doc) |
Anonymous | Liber maiolichinus de gestis Pisanorum illustribus (Latin) (pdf) |
Osbern | De expugnatione Lyxbonensi (excerpt) |
General crusades | |
Guilelmus Tyrensis | Historia rerum gestarum in partibus transmarinis (Latin) |
Anonymous | Old French translation of William of Tyre (Old French) |
Bernard le Tresorier | Continuation of William of Tyre |
Louis de Mas Latrie | Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier |
Alexis Paulin Paris | Guillaume de Tyr et ses continuateurs |
Reinhold Röhricht, Gaston Raynaud | Annales de Terre Sainte, 1095-1291 |
Philip of Novara | Les gestes des Chiprois |
John Schmitt | Chronicle of Morea |
Anonymous | Tractatus de locis et statu sancta terre (doc) |
Jacques de Vitry | A Letter of Jacques de Vitry (doc) |
Gaspard Thaumas de la Thaumassiere | Coustumes de Beauvoisis et Assises de Jérusalem |
Victor Foucher | Assises du royaume de Jérusalem |
Sempad the Constable | Assises d'Antioche |
De Roziere | Cartulaire de l'église du Saint Sépulchre de Jérusalem |
Henri-François Delaborde | Chartes de Terre Sainte provenant de l'Abbaye de N.-D. de Josaphat |
André d'Albon | Cartulaire général de l'ordre du Temple: 1119?-1150 |
Reinhold Röhricht | Regesta regni Hierosolymitani (MXCVII-MCCXCI) |
Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich Tafel, Georg Martin Thomas | Urkunden zur älteren Handels- und Staatsgeschichte der Republik Venedig |
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society | Vol. 5: Fetellus, John of Wurzburg, Joannes Phocas, Theoderich, crusader letter |
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society | Vol. 6: Anonymous 11th-12th century pilgrims, etc |
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society | Vol. 13: Baha ad-Din's Life of Saladin |
Ibn Jubayr | The Travels of Ibn Jubayr (ed. William Wright) |
Du Cange| | Les familles d'outre-mer, ed. E.G. Rey |
Recueil des historiens des croisades | RHC Occ vol. 1; RHC Occ vol. 2; RHC Occ vol. 3; RHC Occ vol. 4; RHC Occ vol. 5; RHC Or vol. 1; RHC Or vol. 2.1; RHC Or vol. 2.2; RHC Or vol. 3; RHC Or vol. 4; RHC Or vol. 5; RHC Arm vol. 1; RHC Arm vol. 2; RHC Grec vol. 1; RHC Grec vol. 2 |
Secondary Sources | |
Bon, Antoine | La Morée franque. Recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d'Achaïe |
Brodman, J. W. | Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain |
Burns, Robert I., S.J. | The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia |
Laiou, Angeliki E. and Mottahedeh, Roy Parviz (eds.) | The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (pdf) |
Setton, Kenneth (ed.) | A History of the Crusades |
A little peripheral, but hopefully of use to some. A standard history; and a mixture of primary and secondary sources:
Main page | Discussion |
News & open tasks | Academy | Assessment |
A-Class review | Contest | Awards | Members |
Welcome to the Crusades task force, a joint venture of the Middle Ages and Military history WikiProjects. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. Mind that you do not need any kind of approval to edit an article. Important for edits in the first place is that they are balanced and neutral or bring (more) balance or (more) neutrality in an article, and edits must be verifiable from reliable sources. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. This task force aims to cover aspects of the military expeditions initiated and organised by the Roman-Catholic church in the early Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East, labeled from some 100 years afterwards on as Crusades. [1] The task force covers the Crusader states in the Middle East, crusades against what the Roman-Catholic church saw as heretics and pagans in Europe, the military operation of the Roman-Catholic church and it's allies coined "Reconquista" in Iberia, and crusades against the Ottomans in the Later Middle Ages, as well as Muslim, Eastern Christian, Jewish, and other societies affected by the crusades. The task force tries to go beyond purely military matters, to social, administrative, legal, art, religious, and literary history, and modern historiography of the period. However at the moment not much knowledge or interest exists on these matters within the task force, so the task force welcomes editors who could contribute in these fields, to join. Hopefully in the future, due to edits of Wikipedians all over the world, articles also will contain information about the way crusades, crusaders and crusade-thinking affected societies in other ways than military gain and loss and tells the story from all possible perspectives, not mainly that of the Roman-Catholic narrative. The people in this task force would like to have any article related to the topics mentioned, be marked by adding the following to the project banners at the top of its talk page
This will automatically place it into Category:Crusades task force articles. Mind, this is not an obligation, the request makes it easier for the task force to keep an eye on edits. |
If you approach anyone from this list for advice or help, please check their contributions first to check if they've edited recently. This list may contain people who have not edited Wikipedia in a long time.
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If you wish to identify yourself as a participant of this task force, simply copy and paste this userbox to your user page: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/User WPMILHIST Crusades task force}}
The table to the right shows the current
article assessment statistics for this task force.
A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below:
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Featured article reviews
Good article reassessments
The following resources may be useful when developing articles:
Primary Sources | |
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First Crusade | |
Guibert of Nogent | The Deeds of God Through the Franks |
Fulcher of Chartres | Historia Hierosolymitana, 1096-1127 (Latin) |
Anna Comnena | Alexiad |
Anonymous | Gesta Francorum (Latin) |
Anonymous | Anonymi Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum (ed. Heinrich Hagenmeyer) |
Various | Epistulae et chartae ad historiam primi belli sacri spectantes (ed. Heinrich Hagenmeyer) |
Various | The first crusade; the accounts of eye-witnesses and participants (ed. August C. Krey) |
Radulfus Cadomensis | Gesta Tancredi (Latin) |
Second Crusade | |
Otto Frisingensis | Gesta Friderici (Latin) |
Various | Letters concerning the Second Crusade (doc) |
Third Crusade | |
Anonymous | Itinerary of Richard I and others to the Holy Land (pdf) |
Ralph of Coggeshall (attributed) | De Expugnatione Terra Sanctae per Saladinum (doc) |
Fourth Crusade | |
Geoffrey of Villehardouin | The Conquest of Constantinople |
Jean de Joinville | Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville |
Guntherus Cistercensis Monachus | Historia Captae A Latinis Constantinopoleos (Latin) (doc) |
Various | The Fourth Crusade: Selected Texts (doc) |
Pope Innocent III | Letters of Pope Innocent III concerning the Fourth Crusade (doc) |
Reconquista | |
Caffaro di Rustico | The Capture of Almeria and Tortosa (doc) |
Anonymous | Liber maiolichinus de gestis Pisanorum illustribus (Latin) (pdf) |
Osbern | De expugnatione Lyxbonensi (excerpt) |
General crusades | |
Guilelmus Tyrensis | Historia rerum gestarum in partibus transmarinis (Latin) |
Anonymous | Old French translation of William of Tyre (Old French) |
Bernard le Tresorier | Continuation of William of Tyre |
Louis de Mas Latrie | Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier |
Alexis Paulin Paris | Guillaume de Tyr et ses continuateurs |
Reinhold Röhricht, Gaston Raynaud | Annales de Terre Sainte, 1095-1291 |
Philip of Novara | Les gestes des Chiprois |
John Schmitt | Chronicle of Morea |
Anonymous | Tractatus de locis et statu sancta terre (doc) |
Jacques de Vitry | A Letter of Jacques de Vitry (doc) |
Gaspard Thaumas de la Thaumassiere | Coustumes de Beauvoisis et Assises de Jérusalem |
Victor Foucher | Assises du royaume de Jérusalem |
Sempad the Constable | Assises d'Antioche |
De Roziere | Cartulaire de l'église du Saint Sépulchre de Jérusalem |
Henri-François Delaborde | Chartes de Terre Sainte provenant de l'Abbaye de N.-D. de Josaphat |
André d'Albon | Cartulaire général de l'ordre du Temple: 1119?-1150 |
Reinhold Röhricht | Regesta regni Hierosolymitani (MXCVII-MCCXCI) |
Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich Tafel, Georg Martin Thomas | Urkunden zur älteren Handels- und Staatsgeschichte der Republik Venedig |
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society | Vol. 5: Fetellus, John of Wurzburg, Joannes Phocas, Theoderich, crusader letter |
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society | Vol. 6: Anonymous 11th-12th century pilgrims, etc |
Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society | Vol. 13: Baha ad-Din's Life of Saladin |
Ibn Jubayr | The Travels of Ibn Jubayr (ed. William Wright) |
Du Cange| | Les familles d'outre-mer, ed. E.G. Rey |
Recueil des historiens des croisades | RHC Occ vol. 1; RHC Occ vol. 2; RHC Occ vol. 3; RHC Occ vol. 4; RHC Occ vol. 5; RHC Or vol. 1; RHC Or vol. 2.1; RHC Or vol. 2.2; RHC Or vol. 3; RHC Or vol. 4; RHC Or vol. 5; RHC Arm vol. 1; RHC Arm vol. 2; RHC Grec vol. 1; RHC Grec vol. 2 |
Secondary Sources | |
Bon, Antoine | La Morée franque. Recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d'Achaïe |
Brodman, J. W. | Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain |
Burns, Robert I., S.J. | The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia |
Laiou, Angeliki E. and Mottahedeh, Roy Parviz (eds.) | The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (pdf) |
Setton, Kenneth (ed.) | A History of the Crusades |
A little peripheral, but hopefully of use to some. A standard history; and a mixture of primary and secondary sources: