Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome (trans: "Library of the French schools of Greece and Rome") is the name of two series of historical documents, such as the letters of 13th century Popes during the Crusades

Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars, blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church with the main goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem...

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Modern history books which cite excerpts from letters of the Crusades, often list the BEFhttp://www.premontre.org/subpages/loci/monasticon/generalia/3%20tomus.htm#Elenchus%20Materiae in their citation.http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33798

The first series began publication in 1877.http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/bibliographia/?function=detail&id=6531&PHPSESSID=32f

The second series was published 1884-1960.http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/bibliographia/?function=detail&id=9624&PHPSESSID=32f

First series

• Le liber censuum de l'Église romaine
• Sainte Catherine de Sienne: essai de critique des sourceshttp://books.google.com/books?id=uy0NAAAAIAAJ&dq=berger+Biblioth%C3%A8que+des+Ecoles+Fran%C3%A7aises+d'Ath%C3%A8nes+et+de+Rome&as_brr=1&pgis=1

Second series

• Les Registres d'Innocent IV (ed. Elie Berger, 4 vols., Paris, 1884–1921)
• Les Registres d'Alexandre IV (ed. C. Bourel de la Roncière, J. de Loye, P. de Cenival, and A. Coulon, 3 vols., Paris, 1902–1953)
• Les Registres d'Urbain IV (ed. Jean Guiraud, 4 vols., Paris, 1899–1929)
• Les Registres de Clément IV (ed. Edouard Jordan, 6 fasc., Paris, 1893–1945)
• Les Registres de Grégoire X et de Jean XXI (ed. Jean Guiraud and L. Cadier, 4 fasc., Paris, 1892–1906)
• Les Registres de Nicolas III (ed. Jules Gay [and Suzanne Vitte], fasc., Paris, 1898–1938)
• Les Registres de Martin IV (ed. F. Olivier-Martin et al., 3 fasc., Paris, 1901–1935)
• Les Registres d'Honorius IV (ed. Maurice Prou, Paris, 1886–1888)
• Les Registres de Nicolas IV (ed. Ernest Langlois, 9 fasc., Paris, 1886–1893)

Other correspondence includes that of:

• Innocent III, edited by Migne, P.L., vols. 214-16
• Honorius IV, Regesta, edited by Pressutti
• Gregory IX, Registres, Auvray

External links

• http://books.google.com/books?id=E-KRGAMde3UC&pg=RA2-PA16&vq=innocent&dq=berger+Biblioth%C3%A8que+des+Ecoles+Fran%C3%A7aises+d%27Ath%C3%A8nes+et+de+Rome&as_brr=1#PRA2-PA15,M1