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CONTENTS

The Crusades in Detail

List of Illustrations, Figures and Maps

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction What Were the Crusades?

One The Mediterranean Crisis and the Background to the First Crusade

Two The First Crusade

Three ‘The Land Beyond The Sea’: Latin Christian Lordship in the Levant, 1099–1187

Four Crusades and the Defence of Outremer, 1100–1187

Five The Third Crusade and the Reinvention of Crusading, 1187–1198

Six Reshaping the Eastern Mediterranean: Egypt and the Crusades, 1200–1250

Seven Crusades in Spain

Eight Baltic Crusades

Nine Crusades Against Christians

Ten The End of the Jerusalem Wars, 1250–1370

Eleven The Ottomans

Twelve New Challenges and the End of Crusading

Thirteen Crusading: Our Contemporary?

Postscript Do the Crusades Matter?

Chronology

List of Rulers

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index