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wrote the History of the first Crusade, down to William of Tyr. Amongst 

 those who wrote in Latin we may mention Bernard the Treasurer, Albert of 

 Aix, Jacques de Vitry, Robert the Monk, Foucher of Chartres, and Odon de 

 Deuil. There are also two French historians of the fourth and last Crusade, 

 both o'f whose names have become household words Villehardouin and the 

 Sire de Joinville. 



But, before speaking of the French historians who brought about a 

 complete change in the form of historical works, we must refer to the Greek 

 and Latin writers, and also to a few historians in the vulgar tongue, who 



Fig. 362." How the Due d'Alan<;on took the said Town of Alan<;on." Miniature from the 

 " Vigiles de Charles VII.," by Martial d'Auvergno. Manuscript dated 1484 (No. 5054). In 

 the National Library, Paris. 



contributed not a little to the revival of historical science. Cedrenus and 

 Zonoras, like most of the historians of the Middle Ages, commenced with the 

 creation of the world, and brought their Chronicles down to their own day, 

 the one to 1057, the other to 1118. Another Greek historian, Nicetas 

 Choniates, commenced his Annals, of which there were twenty-one books, with 

 the death of Alexis Comnenus, and terminated them with the death of the 

 Emperor Baldwin. The Latin historians were so numerous that a mere list 

 of their names would fill more than ten pages, and the only writers we need 



