Sir Thomas Malory paraphrased and arranged the best episodes of these romances in English prose.
I would like to present below a slightly paraphrased Learner's Charter, for learners and learning in the workplace.
The reliability of the news herein is dependent on that of the cited sources, which are paraphrased rather than quoted.
Some disciplines require a certain style while other professors are happy as long as quotations and paraphrased information are fully attributed.
But Kemal-ud-din's History of Aleppo (composed in the 13th century) contains some details on the history of the First Crusade; and the Vie d'Ousama (the autobiography of a sheik at Caesarea in northern Syria, edited and paraphrased by Derenbourg in the Publications de l'Ecole des langues orientales vivantes) presents the point of view of an Arab whose life covered the first century of the Crusades (1095-1188).
