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Crusades: Literary Studies

Library and internet resources in Medieval and Renaissance Studies for research on the Crusades.

Chansons and other heroic poems

The Old French Crusade Cycle
10 Vols.
The Song of Roland by Dorothy L. Sayers (Translator)
Call Number: PQ1521.E5 S3 1957
The song of William (La chançun de Guillelme) by Edward Noble Stone (Translator)
Call Number: PQ1477.G8 E5 1951

Also known as the Song of Rainoart.
Chanson de la croisade albigeoise by Janet Shirley (Translator)
Call Number: PC3340.G84 C413 1996
Le songe du Vieil Pelerin by Philippe de Mézières, G. W. Coopland(Editor)
Call Number: D172 .M44 1969
Heroes of the French Epic by Michael Newth (Translator)
Call Number: PQ1310 .H47 2005
El Cid campeador. by Ramón Menéndez Pidal (Editor)
Call Number: PQ6366 .A2 1955
Poema de Fernan Gonzalez by D. Emilio Alarcos Llorach(Editor)
Call Number: PQ6420 .P54 1955
Cantigas de Santa María by Alfonso X, el Sabio
Call Number: PQ9189.A44 C3 1986
Expeditio Jerosolimitana by Metellus von Tegernsee
Call Number: PA2801 .Q4 Bd. 6
El "Poema de Almería" y la épica románica by H. Salvador Martínez
Call Number: PA8306.C45 P635
The Historia Vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris and a Second, Anonymous Author by C. W. Grocock; J. E. Siberry; Gilo of Paris Staff (Editor)
Call Number: PA8330.G53 D4313 1997
Die Kreuzfahrt des Landgrafen Ludwigs des Frommen von Thüringen by Hans Naumann
Call Number: DD3.M8 S76 v.4

A heroic poem, describing the siege of Acre, probably written in 1301 by an unknown ecclesiastic at the court of Bolko I, duke of Schweidnitz-Jauer--Cf. Einleitung.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Guillame d'Orange by Joan M. Ferrante
Call Number: PQ1481.A3 F4

Troubadours

“Reconmenciez novele estoire: The Troubadours and the Rhetoric of the Later Crusades.” by Jaye, Puckett
MLN 116, no. 4 (2001): 844-889

Contains a list of troubadour crusade songs.
Onze poèmes concernant la Croisade by Rutebeuf, Julia Bastin(Editor)
Call Number: PQ1532 .R705 1946
Kreuzzugsdichtung by Ulrich Müller
Call Number: PN6110.C9 M8

Chiefly in Middle High German. Latin, Old French, Provençal, and Italian texts are accompanied by German paraphrases.
Lark in the Morning by Ezra Pound (Translator); Robert Kehew (Editor, Translator); W. D. Snodgrass (Translator)
Call Number: PC3365.E3 L37 2005

Vernacular Manuscripts

Textual Sources of the Chanson de Geste
Part of Andy Holt Virtual Library's "Manuscripts of Medieval France with Vernacular Texts", a collection of over 800 links to manuscript facsimiles and nearly all of the French medieval literary canon.