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The Crusades

Primary Sources - Book Format - Translations

Useful Article Databases and Journals


JSTOR
- Contains the following journals that would relate to the Crusades and the Latin Kingdoms: American Historical Review, English Historical Review, Past and Present and Speculum. In addition to these journals, there are a number of e-books that would be useful.      
REMEMBER: JSTOR treats annual conference proceedings like books, so don't limit your results to articles only. You may miss out on a good article from a conference proceeding or a collection of essays. Also be aware that JSTOR doesn't always provide complete coverage of a journal.
 

Historical Abstracts - Will give you all of the titles in JSTOR plus access to some smaller, more specialized journals. Just remember to restrict your results to academic articles only. Historical Abstracts provides magazine and non-peer reviewed articles too.

Wiley Online Library - Wiley provide access to these two important journals:
                  Historical Research

 

Medieval History Journal - This journal tends to focus on non-European medieval history but it does include articles about the Crusades and the Latin Kingdoms, as well as Islamic kingdoms in that region.
The Medieval History Journal
 

Crusades (A journal Ashgate publishes for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Siena does not subscribe to but a listing of issues and their tables of content can be found here:

Any articles you find can be requested through ILL


This database will provide you with article citations but has no full-text. Any citations that you find you can request through ILL.


Journal of Medieval Military History - Available through JSTOR. There is a two year rolling embargo on new content:

 
Any embargoed articles can be requested through ILL.

Primary Sources - Digital

Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters