List of Illustrations

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

 p. ii. Scenes from the siege of Damietta, 1219, including the floating siege-tower designed by the preacher and chronicler Oliver of Paderborn. (CCC 16 fol. 55 verso (59 verso))

pp. 26–7. The defeat of the Christian army in Palestine by Khorezmians at Forbie following the loss of Jerusalem in 1244. (CCC 16 fol. 170 verso)

pp. 60–61. The defeat and captivity of French crusaders at Gaza, 1240. (CCC 16 133 verso-134 recto (134 verso-135 verso))

pp. 124–5. Warriors practising and a preacher preaching illustrated in an early fourteenth-century treatise on how to recover the Holy Land. (Tanner 190 fol. 189 recto)

pp. 178–9. Knights attacking Muslim cavalry and a cargo ship. (Tanner 190 fol. 17 verso-18 recto)

pp. 228–9. Knights protected by Christ in an armed galley confronting Muslim forces. (Tanner 190 fol. 22 recto)

PLATE SECTION

1.	An early fourteenth-century map of Jerusalem. (Tanner 190 fol. 206 verso)
2.	The world as understood by crusader planners in the early fourteenth century. (Tanner 190 fol. 203 verso-204 recto)
3.	A battle outside Damietta during the Fifth Crusade. (CCC 16 fol. 54 (58 verso))
4.	Louis IX of France taking the Cross on his sick-bed, 1244. (CCC 16 fol. 182 recto)
5.	The First Council of Lyons, 1245. (CCC 16 fol. 186 verso)
6.	A thirteenth-century image of a Franciscan friar. (CCC 16 fol. 26 recto (30 recto))
7.	Louis IX of France displaying relics linked to the Holy Land. (CCC 16 fol. 141 verso (142 verso))
8.	Mongols depicted as cannibals. (CCC 16 fol. 166 recto)
9.	The count of Brittany negotiating with al-Nasir of Kerak, 1240. (CCC 16 fol. 138 verso (139 verso))
10.	A crusade transport galley. (Tanner 190 fol. 20)
11.	A thirteenth-century monk’s view of the purses of Cahorsin financiers. (CCC 16 fol. 95 recto)
12.	French prisoners released from Egypt, 1241. (CCC 16 fol. 148 recto (149 recto))
13.	Late eleventh-century messengers. (Bayeux Tapestry)
14.	The Fourth Lateran Council, 1215. (CCC 16 fol. 43 verso (47 verso))
15.	and 16. The logistics of medieval warfare: shipbuilding. (Bayeux Tapestry)
17.	and 18. The logistics of medieval warfare: supplies and arms. (Bayeux Tapestry)
19.	The logistics of medieval warfare: food. (Bayeux Tapestry)
20.	Odo of Bayeux at the battle of Hastings. (Bayeux Tapestry)
21.	A naval battle between Pisans and Genoese. (CCC 16 fol. 146 recto (147 recto))
22.	Building a battlefield fort. (Bayeux Tapestry)
23.	A thirteenth-century Englishman’s view of the Holy Land. (CCC 16 fol. iii verso)
24.	An early fourteenth-century plan of Acre. (Tanner 190 fol. 207 recto)
25.	A thirteenth-century itinerary from London to southern Italy. (CCC 16 fol. Ii)
26.	An early fourteenth-century chart of the Near East. (Tanner 190 fol. 204 verso-205 recto)
27.	Marino Sanudo Torsello presenting copies of his treatise on how to recover the Holy Land. (Tanner 190 fol. 4 recto)
28.	The Mongol invasion of eastern Europe. (CCC 16 fol. 144 recto (145 recto))
29.	A grid map of the Holy Land. (Tanner 190 fol. 205 verso-206n recto)

CCC = Matthew Paris, Chronica majora, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 16 – old pagination listed first, followed by new pagination where appropriate

Tanner = Marino Sanudo Torsello, Secreta Fidelium Crucis, Bodleian Library, Oxford MS Tanner 190

Bayeux Tapestry reproductions from the Bridgeman Art Library