Define the following Crusades Chronicles, Biographer
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The list of sources for the Crusades provides those accounts of the Crusades from the Council of Clermont in 1095 until the fall of Acre in 1291 that were written contemporaneously. These sources include chronicles, personal accounts, official documents and archaeological findings. As such, these lists provide the medieval historiography of the Crusades.
A number of 17th through 19th century historians published numerous collections of original sources of the Crusades. These include Recueil des historiens des croisades (RHC), Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), Revue de l'Orient Latin/Archives de l’Orient Latin (ROL/AOL) and the Rolls Series. Other collections are of interest to the Crusader period include Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France (RHF),[1] Rerum Italicarum scriptores (RISc),[2] Patrologia Latina (MPL), Patrologia Graeco-Latina (MPG), Patrologia Orientalis (PO), Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (CSCO) and Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (PPTS).[3]
Modern reference material to these sources include Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,[4] Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Dictionary of National Biography, Neue Deutsche Biographie, Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church,[5] Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages,[6] Catholic Encyclopedia,[7] Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle,[8] Encyclopædia Iranica,[9] Encyclopædia Islamica[10] and Encyclopaedia of Islam.[11] Contemporary histories include the three-volume A History of the Crusades (1951–1954)[12][13][14] by Steven Runciman, the Wisconsin collaborative study A History of the Crusades (1969–1989)[15] edited by Kenneth M. Setton, particularly the Select Bibliography[16] by Hans E. Mayer, Fordham University's Internet Medieval Sourcebook;[17] and The Crusades: An Encyclopedia, edited by Alan V. Murray.[18]
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The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The term refers especially to the Eastern Mediterranean campaigns in the period between 1095 and 1271 that had the objective of conquering the Holy Land from Islamic rule.
a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation a chronicle of the Civil War. 2 : narrative sense 1 a chronicle of the struggle against drug traffickers. chronicle. verb. chronicled; chronicling\ ˈkrä-ni-k(ə-)liŋ \
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. ... Works in diverse media, from literature to film, form the genre known as biography.