Note 058
Our best fund for the history of Jerusalem
from Heraclius to the crusades is contained in two large and
original passages of William archbishop of Tyre, (l. i. c. 1
- 10, l. xviii. c. 5, 6,) the principal author of the Gesta
Dei per Francos. M. De Guignes has composed a very learned
Memoire sur le Commerce des Francois dans le de Levant avant
les Croisades, &c. (Mem. de l'Academie des Inscriptions,
tom. xxxvii. p. 467 - 500.)]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 57