Looking for best crusader lit: anything like first-hand accounts, epic poems, even respectable fiction written a hundred years or so after they ended. Specifically looking for 1st Crusade, but any will do.
Crusades Through Arab Eyes. I was suspicious of it at first but it's a really fascinating account with some especially badass shit about Dicky Lionheart becoming a cannibal etc.
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Forgot to mention some classics, chief among them Song of Roland and Orlando Furioso
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Chronicles of the First Crusade
Get the penguin classics one introduced by Christopher Tyreman, not sure if there's another version but that's the one I have
Robert de Clari's (a soldier, he's said to've been more factual than most) account of the Fourth might interest you
>http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/SOURCES/clari.htm
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*dead link sorry
>http://deremilitari.org/2014/01/robert-of-claris-account-of-the-fourth-crusade/
>>8268706
They're both great. Furioso is extremely entertaining and unputdownable.
