Series: Crusade Texts in Translation

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical perspective. Here is a very different voice, one with a more secular, Mediterranean tone....

The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233AD), entitled al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh, is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author and, with the sources available to him, he attempted to embrace the widest geographical spread; events in Iraq, Iran and further East...

The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh. Part 3 is a remarkable historical source authored by Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233 AD). This work, originally titled al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh, stands out for its comprehensive account of mediaeval history, nearly spanning the entire Islamic world up to the author's time of death. Drawing from the sources available to him,...