1. Idealized geography: an early fourteenth-century map of Jerusalem.
2. The world as understood by crusader planners in the early fourteenth century.
3. Crusade and chivalry: a battle outside Damietta during the Fifth Crusade.
4. Louis IX of France taking the Cross on his sick-bed, 1244.
5. Planning crusades: the First Council of Lyons, 1245.
6. Preachers of the crusade: a thirteenthcentury image of a Franciscan friar.
7. Louis IX of France displaying relics linked to the Holy Land: the True Cross and the Crown of Thorns.
8. Scare stories: Mongols depicted as cannibals.
9. Crusade diplomacy: the count of Brittany negotiates with al-Nasir of Kerak, 1240.
10. A crusade transport galley.
11. The power of credit: a thirteenth-century monk’s view of the purses of Cahorsin financiers.
12. Crusade diplomacy; the release of French prisoners from Egypt, 1241.
13. Communications: late eleventh-century messengers.
14. Planning crusades: the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.
15 and 16. The logistics of medieval warfare: shipbuilding.
17 and 18. The logistics of medieval warfare: arms and supplies. (See p. 256.)
19. The logistics of medieval warfare: food. (See p. 256.)
20. One of the first crusaders: Odo of Bayeux in armour at the battle of Hastings. (See p. 273.)
21. Naval warfare, with attendant priests: a battle between Pisans and Genoese.
22. Building a battlefield fort.
23. A thirteenth-century Englishman's view of the Holy Land. (See p. 280.)
24. An early fourteenth-century plan of Acre. (See p. 282.)
25. Knowing where to go: from a thirteenth-century itinerary from London to southern Italy.
26. Knowing where to go: an early fourteenth-century chart of the Near East.
27. How to influence people: Marino Sanudo Torsello presenting copies of his treatise on how to recover the Holy Land to Pope John XXII in 1321. (See p. 282.)
28. New strategic threats: the Mongol invasion of eastern Europe.
29. Knowing what to find: a grid map of the Holy Land. (See p. 282.)